Re: Fwd: resetting superuser password - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Martin Fandel
Subject Re: Fwd: resetting superuser password
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Msg-id 1131540474.7250.375.camel@fandelm.tc.de
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In response to Fwd: resetting superuser password  ("Marc A. Donis" <mad7@runbox.com>)
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Hi,

which version of postgres do you have? Put this temporarly into the /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf:

if postgres 8:
local    all         postgres     127.0.0.1/32 trust

if postgres 7:
local      all         trust

then connect to template1...:
psql -U postgres -d template1

...and set your password:
alter user postgres with encrypted password 'blablubb';

i hope this works.

regards,

martin

Am Mittwoch, den 09.11.2005, 13:38 +0100 schrieb Marc A. Donis:
I have lost the superuser (user postgres) password, but I still have the unix root password.  Is there anything I can do to reset the postgres user's password (short of reinstalling Postgres)?

Obviously, I can su to unix user postgres, but this does not seem to advance my cause, as doing "psql -U postgres" still prompts me for a password, which is not the same as the unix postgres user's password. 

OS: RedHat 9

Help!

Thanks,
Marc

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