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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: forgotten data base superuser password
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Msg-id 12490.980351812@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to forgotten data base superuser password  ("Mikhail Utin" <mutin@rubos.com>)
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Best way out of that is to temporarily set pg_hba.conf to use
non-password authentication ('trust' or maybe 'ident').  Then
you can connect without the password, update the password field
in pg_shadow, and finally restore pg_hba.conf.

            regards, tom lane

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