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From Pedro Almeida
Subject pgsql initial superuser
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Msg-id 4030FCBF.2020005@netvisao.pt
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Responses Re: pgsql initial superuser  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Re: pgsql initial superuser  (Pedro Almeida <niker@netvisao.pt>)
Re: pgsql initial superuser  ("V i s h a l Kashyap @ [Sai Hertz And Control Systems]" <sank89@sancharnet.in>)
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Hello. this is my "first" time using pgsql, and I seem to be running to
a bit of a corner here :-)

I've understood how to add a superuser/database-user/user but I have no
user to begin with.

~# createuser superuser
Shall the new user be allowed to create databases? (y/n) y
Shall the new user be allowed to create more new users? (y/n) y
psql: FATAL:  user "root" does not exist
createuser: creation of user "superuser" failed

So I need someway to add a user so I can add others. I belive this is
done in the pg_hba.conf file, but so far I've been unlucky. I'm using
the debian distributed pg_hba.conf file set up for local access, and I
tried the following lines, each a complete failure:

pg_hba.conf
<snip>
local all root md5
#OR
#local all root ident
<snip>

Even with "createuser blabla -Uroot -W" and using the "ident" auth
method fails. What am I missing here?

Thank you for the support :-D


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