Re: Not Finding password for Postgres user on linux - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dmitry Alyabyev
Subject Re: Not Finding password for Postgres user on linux
Date
Msg-id 4048440659.20020124101926@al.org.ua
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In response to Not Finding password for Postgres user on linux  ("Nandu Garg" <focussed@rediffmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
Thursday, January 24, 2002, 9:13:22 AM, Nandu  Garg wrote:


> Hi All

> I have just now got the Postgresql installed again. But again before connecting it it requires me to connect to
Postgresuser. Now how could I get connected. There is nothing mentioned in Postgre 
> documentation about the default password. Is the password allocated dynamically?
> My linux administrator says he could not find the password. Do I have to create a new user where it's group is
pg_databaseor what? 

Take a look at data/pg_hba.conf file.
By default postgres allow connect without password for user 'postgres'
so you can type: psql -U postgres template1


--
Dimitry



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