On 11/13/2016 05:51 AM, aws backup wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> thank you for the answer.
> There is one password for the postgres database and one for the postgres user.
How are you determining this?
More to the point are you talking about the application(DaVinci Resolve)
or the database itself?
> Both are not working somehow. Is there a way to look up the passwords? I saw in the documentation that there is a
.pgpassfile. But I can't find it.
That is optional and I sort of doubt the application using one.
>
> I changed the auth method to trust for all users. This worked for now.
> Thank you.
>
> Best Regards,
> Robert
>
>
>> On 12 Nov 2016, at 23:31, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/12/2016 01:20 PM, aws backup wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I try to make pg_dumpall backups from a PostgreSQL 9.5 server which is part of the DaVinci Resolve 12.5.3 App on a
MacOS X 10.11.6 system.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I get following failure message:
>>>
>>> pg_dumpall: could not connect to database "template1": FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres"
>>>
>>> Maybe you can help me to solve this problem.
>>
>> Two choices:
>>
>> 1) Determine what the password is for the postgres user and provide it when you connect.
>>
>> 2) If you have access to the pg_hba.conf file create a access line that uses trust as the auth method for user
postgresconnect that way.
>>
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/auth-methods.html#AUTH-TRUST
>>
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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