Ident authentication failed for user - URGENT - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Marina Olhovsky
Subject Ident authentication failed for user - URGENT
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Msg-id 305EADA60EE19E4EB20047CB913B405EACD01C@ex1.ad.mshri.on.ca
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Responses Re: Ident authentication failed for user - URGENT  (Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>)
Re: Ident authentication failed for user - URGENT  (brian <brian@zijn-digital.com>)
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Hello,

I'm trying to assign a password for a postgres user.  I've logged in as postgres, issued "alter user my_user with password 'my_passwd'".  Doing "select * from pg_users" shows the new user with password assigned.  However, when I try to start psql as the new user: "psql -U my_user -W" and enter my_passwd as password, I get "Ident authentication failed" error.  Could someone please help ASAP?  TIA.

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