In article <1136446265(dot)206388(dot)6610(at)g14g2000cwa(dot)googlegroups(dot)com>,
ctobini <ctemp2(at)free(dot)fr> wrote:
>tobini% psql -d template1 -U postgres -W
>password: postgres
>psql: FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user "postgres"
>
>Do you have an idea about this problem ?
Use the su command to become user postgres and then run the
psql command.