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Hi,
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Marko Kreen wrote:
>> I am failing to update the password of the postgresql user from within
>> a Linux installation script run by root:
>>
>> # su - postgres -c echo "ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD
>> 'newpassword';" | psql -U postgres template1
>> psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"
>
> I do not think the psql is ran as user postgres.
Yes, this should be rewritten as:
echo "ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'newpassword';" |su -l \
postgres -c "psql template1"
Regards,
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Devrim GUNDUZ
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