Thread: resetting superuser password

I have lost the superuser (user postgres) password, but I still have
the unix root password. Is there anything I can do to reset the
postgres user's password (short of reinstalling Postgres)?

Obviously, I can su to unix user postgres, but this does not seem to
advance my cause, as doing "psql -U postgres" still prompts me for a
password, which is not the same as the unix postgres user's password.

OS: RedHat 9

Help!

Thanks,
Marc

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 04:42:39AM -0800, mad wrote:
> I have lost the superuser (user postgres) password, but I still have
> the unix root password. Is there anything I can do to reset the
> postgres user's password (short of reinstalling Postgres)?

Edit pg_hba.conf to let you in without a password, then you can login
and change it.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.

I would unix su, edit pg_hba.conf to allow open access
temporarily, connect to pg and change the posgres password.
Don't forget to change pg_hba.conf back again to password
protect the db!

TJ

>
> I have lost the superuser (user postgres) password, but I still have
> the unix root password. Is there anything I can do to reset the
> postgres user's password (short of reinstalling Postgres)?
>