Re: authentication failure - Mailing list pgsql-general

Jayadevan M <maymala.jayadevan@gmail.com> writes:
> back to md5
> psql -h localhost
> psql: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "postgres"
> [ but there's no .pgpass file ]

Perhaps the postgres user has a password that's marked as expired
in pg_authid.rolvaliduntil?  Try
select rolname, rolvaliduntil from pg_authid;

            regards, tom lane