Ident authentication failed without su to user

From: "James A(dot) Bowery" <jabowery(at)laboratoryofthestates(dot)com>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Ident authentication failed without su to user
Date: 2006-02-16 05:11:16
Message-ID: 43F40974.40608@laboratoryofthestates.com
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I've created a database "bugs" and a user "bugs" (postgresql user as
well as unix) and even made user "bugs" not require a password but I
still get this:
[root(at)marathon bugzilla-2.20]# psql bugs bugs
psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "bugs"
...
but if I
[root(at)marathon bugzilla-2.20]# su bugs
[bugs(at)marathon bugzilla-2.20]$ psql bugs bugs
Welcome to psql 8.0.7, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help with psql commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit

bugs=>

it works. any ideas why?

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