Sorry, real newbie question about connecting to a database

I am developinng an appliction usig Postgresql 11, installed on a UBUTU
18.14 machine.

I ahve vreated a new database to do some testing on restricting access of
specific users/roles to certain data. I have done the following:

REVOKE ALL ON DATABASE pertest FROM employee;
GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE pertest TO employee;

and I have verifed tht the user employee does exst, I have also doen a few
more GRABTs to allow specific acces. But I cannot conect, or swith to user
employee:

stan(at)smokey:/etc/postgresql/11/main$ psql -U employee
psql: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "employee"

stan=> \l
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges
--------+----------+----------+---------+---------+-----------------------
pertest | stan | UTF8 | C.UTF-8
| C.UTF-8 | =Tc/stan +
| | stan=CTc/stan

employee=CTc/stan

Sorrry cut and paste mangled that.

What am I failing to do here?

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