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Corey James @remoteconn-7891

Fedora Postgresql Connection Issue

Fedora postgresql connection issue: "Ident authentication failed for user 'postgres'". Tried re-configuring pg_hba.conf, still getting error. Help needed to connect to database and run Django backend commands.

For those are experienced specifically in Fedora. I'm having trouble connecting to my postgresql database in Linux Fedora. 
I need to connect to my database, so that I can run python manage.py migrate and python manage.py runserver to get my Django backend running again.
I tried stack overflow, reddit and used Fedora postgresql docs. I even tried re-configuring my pg_hba.conf as per a related question on  SO. But I still get the same error here:

django.db.utils.OperationalError: connection to server at "localhost" (::1), port 5432 failed: FATAL:  Ident authentication failed for user "postgres...