hba conf ident sameuser not working

I am using auth method of 'ident sameuser' on a postgresql 8 server.
ALL connections to postgres must come from localhost or local unix
socket.

now, when I connection to postgres from remote machines I ssh into the
pg server, but I tunnel postgres traffic. The ident sameuser prevents
tunneled connections from working.

is there any workaround?

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