specify the user which did initdb.
--Imad
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On 12/8/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> my postmaster is on the same machine .. i am pasting the command and its
> output here for u :-
>
> % psql -d template1 -U postgres
> psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"
>
> Please do guide.
>
> Ankit Arun Mehrotra
> Tata Consultancy Services
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