Re: changing my password under cygwin

Please ask this on the correct list, this has nothing to do with JDBC

On 3-May-06, at 5:01 AM, J. wrote:

> I've got postgresql installed with cygwin under xp. I need to
> alter my password but I can't find anything that works. Everything
> I've tried so far hasn't made the change and gives no feedback as
> to what might be wrong. Here is the command I use to run the psql
> tool:
>
> psql -U username -d template1
>
> Here are some things I've tried that didn't work:
>
> alter user username with password 'userpass'
>
> net user username userpass
>
> This is the command I ran before I created my username, but now
> when I run it, it asks for a password which I either never knew or
> forgot:
>
> psql -d template1
>
> I could even delete the user and re-create it as long as I wouldn't
> lose access to the system. Thanks.
>
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