Postgres error: psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user “postgres”

I am in a hurry so i will just post the solution this time.

CAREFUL Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v users: Remove the angle brackets in names

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***Restart the postgres server after finishing the changes***

user@desktop: /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 restart

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user@desktop: psql -Upostgres

FATAL:  Ident authentication failed for user “postgres”

user@desktop: emacs /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/pg_hba.conf

user@desktop: Replace the phrase Ident with trust

Additional details:

If it complains FATAL:  password authentication failed for user “”

su root

su postgres

ALTER USER WITH PASSWORD ‘’;

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