Authentication problem - password and authentication for user postgres is failing. - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Carol Walter
Subject Authentication problem - password and authentication for user postgres is failing.
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Msg-id 9BC5DFDE-9B79-4050-9CCB-2DFD730CF585@sbcglobal.net
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Hello...
and thank you for your help!

I can't be the only one to whom this has happened.  I just set up a new postgreSQL server on a Mac that is running OS
10.6.8. I was using an image that I downloaded from EnterpriseDB.  I ran the set up and all was well, I thought, so I
triedto start psql.  It gave me all the prompts and when I put in the user postgres, it prompted for the password.
WhenI put in the password, it told me that the authentication failed.  I know what I intended the password to be and I
havetyped every permutation of that password I can think of and nothing works.  The only think that I can think is that
Isomehow "fat fingered" the password and I don't have a ghost of a chance to figure out what it is now.  Is there a way
thatI can reset the password?  I had the same result when I tried to connect to the database using pgAdmin. 

Actually, I don't even know if Postgres started.

Carol

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