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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