Re: password authentication failed for user postgres - Mailing list pgsql-admin

When I try to login as dbadmin through shell, I get 'access denied'.

What could be wrong?

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Iñigo Martinez Lasala
<imartinez@vectorsf.com> wrote:
> OK, it's a web app installed locally...
>
> Modify config file for this app (I don't know about it, so you will have to
> search by yourserlf) and point to 127.0.0.1 instead of use unix sockets, and
> also change use postgres for user dbadmin.
>
> Or modify your pg_hba.conf like this
> local     all     postgres     trust
>
> I don't suggest to revert to "local all postgres password" since you will
> have to enter password for any local operation in your server, but anyway,
> it's your decision.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Major Services <services.major@gmail.com>
> To: Iñigo Martinez Lasala <imartinez@vectorsf.com>
> Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] password authentication failed for user postgres
> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 22:41:47 +0530
>
> Thanks.
> I already have created a user.
> And can connect to the server through the PgAdmin on my local system.
>
> My query now is :
> Now when I try to connect to the server through DBWebAdmin (in
>  Parallels Plesk Panel); I get the following :
>  Error: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"
>
>  (earlier, with this link I could reach the login screen for PgAdmin )
>
>   Do I need to remove the following from pg_hba.conf now?
>   local   all         postgres                          ident sameuser
>
> Thanks for all your help & support.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Iñigo Martinez Lasala
> <imartinez@vectorsf.com> wrote:
>> Great. You managed to start server. :-)
>>
>> You are using user postgres and you shoudn't use it.I suggest you to
>> create
>> your own dbadmin...
>>
>> In your linux box, as root user:
>>
>> su - postgres
>> createuser -s dbadmin -P
>>
>> You will create a new user called dbadmin. It will ask you for a password
>> for this user and some extra options. Response YES to all.
>>
>> Now you can connect remotely with this dbadmin user.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Major Services <services.major@gmail.com>
>> To: Iñigo Martinez Lasala <imartinez@vectorsf.com>
>> Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
>> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] password authentication failed for user postgres
>> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 20:07:23 +0530
>>
>>
>> Finally, I am able to create a user.
>>
>> Now when I try to connect to the server through DBWebAdmin (in
>> Parallels Plesk Panel); I get the following :
>> Error: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"
>>
>> (earlier, with this link I could reach the login screen for PgAdmin )
>>
>>  Do I need to remove the following from pg_hba.conf now?
>>  local   all         postgres                          ident sameuser
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Iñigo Martinez Lasala
>> <imartinez@vectorsf.com> wrote:
>>> In order to lauch createuser you don't need to modify listen_address
>>> since
>>> you can use unix sockets. But anyway it's a requirement if you are goint
>>> to
>>> access remotely.
>>>
>>> Add this line in first place to your pg_hba.conf
>>> local   all         postgres                          ident sameuser
>>>
>>>
>>> Reload postgresql and launch createuser as postgres user.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Major Services <services.major@gmail.com>
>>> To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
>>> Subject: [ADMIN] password authentication failed for user postgres
>>> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:13:10 +0530
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> 1. I have added  listen_addresses = '*' ; in  postgresql.conf
>>>
>>> 2. And have made the following changes to pg_hba.conf
>>>
>>> local   DATABASE    USER   METHOD
>>> local    samegroup      all      password
>>> host    DATABASE    USER    CIDR-ADDRESS  METHOD  [OPTION]
>>>
>>
>>> hostssl      all                 all       0.0.0.0/0            md5
>>>
>>> 3. Have restarted the server
>>>
>>> 4. I can login to the server as user postgres.
>>>
>>> But  while trying to createuser I get the following message  :
>>> 'createuser: could not connect to database postgres:  FATAL :
>>> password authentication failed for user "postgres"
>>>
>>> This is on Redhat running Plesk also.
>>>
>>> I am new to Linux as well as PostgreSQL. Help would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Viv
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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