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Subject psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"
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<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br /><br />I have installed postgresql-serve using yum <br />hba.conf group and owner were postgres
theni changed it to root.<br /><br />when i type psql -U postgres command ( as root  user) I get:<br />  <br /> psql:
FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"<br /><br />My file permission are:<br />drwx------ 5 postgres
postgres 4096 2008-09-06 00:36 base<br />drwx------ 2 postgres postgres  4096 2008-09-08 21:44 global<br /> drwx------
2postgres postgres  4096 2008-09-06 00:36 pg_clog<br />-rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres  3200 2008-09-08 21:35
pg_hba.conf<br/>-rw------- 1 postgres postgres  1460 2008-09-06 00:36 pg_ident.conf<br />drwx------ 2 postgres
postgres 4096 2008-09-08 15:52 pg_log<br /> drwx------ 4 postgres postgres  4096 2008-09-06 00:36 pg_multixact<br
/>drwx------2 postgres postgres  4096 2008-09-06 00:36 pg_subtrans<br />drwx------ 2 postgres postgres  4096 2008-09-06
00:36pg_tblspc<br />drwx------ 2 postgres postgres  4096 2008-09-06 00:36 pg_twophase<br /> -rw------- 1 postgres
postgres    4 2008-09-06 00:36 PG_VERSION<br />drwx------ 3 postgres postgres  4096 2008-09-06 00:36 pg_xlog<br
/>-rw-------1 postgres postgres 15336 2008-09-06 00:36 postgresql.conf<br />-rw------- 1 postgres postgres    49
2008-09-0821:44 postmaster.opts<br /> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres    46 2008-09-08 21:44 postmaster.pid<br /><br
/>Howcould i achieve this..<br />Regards,<br />Vikas<br /><br /><br /></div> 

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