Re: password authentication failed for user postgres

But the server restart has failed; I am yet to make the changes suggested by
you in the first instance.

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Iñigo Martinez Lasala <
imartinez(at)vectorsf(dot)com> wrote:

> Try with these parameters in pg_hba.conf. Perhaps your postgres-redhat
> compilation does not have ident enabled...
>
> local all postgres trust
>
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>
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> *From*: Major Services <services(dot)major(at)gmail(dot)com<Major%20Services%20%3cservices(dot)major(at)gmail(dot)com%3e>
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> *Subject*: Re: [ADMIN] password authentication failed for user postgres
> *Date*: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:03:59 +0530
>
> Thank you for your message. But am in another problem now.
> In between I also tried to restart the server with 'service postgresql
> restart'
> It stopped the server, but then *server start failed*.
> Had restarted earlier also, without a problem.
>
> What should I do?
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Iñigo Martinez Lasala <
> imartinez(at)vectorsf(dot)com> wrote:
> > In order to lauch createuser you don't need to modify listen_address
> since
> > you can use unix sockets. But anyway it's a requirement if you are goint
> to
> > access remotely.
> >
> > Add this line in first place to your pg_hba.conf
> > local all postgres ident sameuser
> >
> >
> > Reload postgresql and launch createuser as postgres user.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Major Services <services(dot)major(at)gmail(dot)com>
> > To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: [ADMIN] password authentication failed for user postgres
> > Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:13:10 +0530
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > 1. I have added listen_addresses = '*' ; in postgresql.conf
> >
> > 2. And have made the following changes to pg_hba.conf
> >
> > local DATABASE USER METHOD
> > local samegroup all password
> > host DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD [OPTION]
> > host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5
> > hostssl all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5
> >
> > 3. Have restarted the server
> >
> > 4. I can login to the server as user postgres.
> >
> > But while trying to createuser I get the following message :
> > 'createuser: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL :
> > password authentication failed for user "postgres"
> >
> > This is on Redhat running Plesk also.
> >
> > I am new to Linux as well as PostgreSQL. Help would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Viv
> >
> >
> >
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