psql: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user error - Urgent pls

From: "Kumar" <sgnerd(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)sg>
To: "psql" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: psql: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user error - Urgent pls
Date: 2004-03-19 12:39:33
Message-ID: 026601c40daf$442ffcd0$7502a8c0@hdsc.com
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Dear Friends,

I have installed Linux Fedore and wanted to work with the default installed postgres 7.3.4 database.

I could able to create to create user, but while try to connect, I got the following error message
psql: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user

My pg_hba.conf file looks like below

# TYPE DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD

local all all trust
host all all 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0 trust

I couldnt understand why. Please shed some light

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