Re: Ubuntu installed postgresql password failure - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: Ubuntu installed postgresql password failure
Date
Msg-id 55F5E7C7.4010201@aklaver.com
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In response to Ubuntu installed postgresql password failure  (Dale Seaburg <kg5lt@verizon.net>)
List pgsql-general
On 09/13/2015 01:57 PM, Dale Seaburg wrote:
> I have reached my wit's end.  lol  I installed postgresql (9.3.9) and
> pgadmin3 with the Ubuntu Software Center.  When using pgadmin or psql, I
> get an error "password authentication failed for user "postgres" ".
> Ubuntu (14.04.3).
>
> I created a postgres user BEFORE installing postgresql/pgadmin toolset.
> The password I used for the postgres user will not work with the
> installed postgresql tools.
>
> What in the world am I doing wrong, and more importantly, how do I
> determine the password used for postgres during the postgresql install?
> AND, why should it be different from the postgres user I created.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Realized I should have sent the link below previously:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostgreSQL

>
> Dale
>
>


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