How to upgrade under redhat [was: alter user to change user's password returns pg_shadow: Permission - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Wayne Johnson
Subject How to upgrade under redhat [was: alter user to change user's password returns pg_shadow: Permission
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Msg-id 3B674AF3.79CA5A53@yahoo.com
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In response to alter user to change user's password returns pg_shadow: Permission denied.  (Wayne Johnson <wdtj@yahoo.com>)
Responses Re: How to upgrade under redhat [was: alter user to change user's password returns pg_shadow: Permission  (Jason Turner <jasont@indigoindustrial.co.nz>)
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OK, so apparently the solution is to upgrade.  My OS is currently RedHat
6.2.  I'm a little leary of upgrading Linux at this point.  Is there a
way to run Postgresql 7 under RedHat 6.2 or do I have to upgrade?

Wayne Johnson wrote:
>
> According to the Postgresql manual, a user can alter their own
> password.  When I try:
> alter user "test" with password "zzzz";
> Where test is the user id signed in with, I get the error:
> ERROR:  pg_shadow: Permission denied.
>
> What am I overlooking?
>
> Tia,
>
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