Re: How to recover or resent the password for the user 'postgres' - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 03/30/2015 01:09 AM, Arup Rakshit wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to follow what has been mentioned below **Setting Up Postgres**
(https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-setup-ruby-on-rails-with-postgres).
>
> But no luck!
>
> [shreyas@myapp(add_postgres_addapter)]$ su - postgres
> Password:
> su: Sorry
> [shreyas@myapp (add_postgres_addapter)]$
>
> It is asking me the password, whereas I don't know the password of the user `postgres`. How would I create a new role
witha password in this case ? 

How did you install Postgres?

>
> I am using OS X version 10.8.2
>   Regards,
> Arup Rakshit
>
>


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