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Re: connection to server at "localhost" (::1), port 5432 failed: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres" - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Ron Johnson
Subject Re: connection to server at "localhost" (::1), port 5432 failed: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"
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Msg-id CANzqJaC32S5H98df6=YhUiiqJiHuy7EVm_wS0VF6N3Py49wSpg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to connection to server at "localhost" (::1), port 5432 failed: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"  (Dutch Glory <dutch.glory@yahoo.com>)
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM Dutch Glory <dutch.glory@yahoo.com> wrote:
PostgreSQL 17.2 on x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (SUSE Linux) 14.2.1 20241007 [revision 4af44f2cf7d281f3e4f3957efce10e8b2ccb2ad3], 64-bit

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connection to server at "localhost" (::1), port 5432 failed: FATAL:  Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"

Show the (whole) command, not just (part of) the error message.

And the pg_hba.conf file, too.

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