psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "username"
Issue
- I am unable to login into postgresql database as a database user. I am getting an error message psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "username"
# psql postgres -U "postgres"psql: FATAL Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3,4,5
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