Re: Password authentication failing

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many thanks

Bill

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Francisco Leovey <fleovey(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

> Change the 2 md5 to trust and all will work
>
> *From:* Bill Appelbe <bappelbe(at)gmail(dot)com>
> *To:* Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
> *Cc:* pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 29, 2011 2:23 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [pgadmin-support] Password authentication failing
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info
> > wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 17:00 +0000, Bill Appelbe wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
> > <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 16:31 +0000, Bill Appelbe wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > I installed Pgadmin3 version 1.12.3 on Linux Mint 12 which
> > also has
> > > PostgreSQL 8.4 installed.
> > >
> > > It all worked fine and I was able to look at the database.
> > > Then I went away for a few days, came back and now have a
> > problem
> > > connecting to PostgreSQL
> > > the error is:
> > > Error connecting to the server: FATAL: password
> > authentication failed for
> > > user "postgres"
> > > FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres"
> > >
> > > Seems simple enough! but I retype the password and no joy.
> > > I have another application that uses PostgreSQL (LedgerSMB)
> > and it works
> > > fine.
> > >
> > > After some research I changed the password using :
> > > ALTER USER postgres PASSWORD 'newPassword';
> > > in psql
> > > this also does not work
> > >
> > > I also edited pg_hba.comf and replaced the word 'ident' with
> > 'trust' in the
> > > first line.
> > > I restarted the postgres server and still no joy.
> > >
> > > There has to be something simple that I am missing but I
> > can't see it!
> > > any help would be appreciated
> > >
> >
> >
> > The only reason I see is that you're not connecting to the
> > same server.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Guillaume
> > http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info
> > http://www.dalibo.com
> > PostgreSQL Sessions #3: http://www.postgresql-sessions.org
> >
> >
> > It is all to 127.0.0.1 there is no other PostgreSQL installation on
> > the network
> >
>
> OK. Then, tell us exactly how you try to connect to your PostgreSQL
> database, the exact error message you get, and give us the whole
> pg_hba.conf file.
>
>
>
> I open pgAdmin and go to File - Add Server
> I fill in the window that appears Name =test, Host =127.0.0.1 the next few
> are default
> (port 5432, Maintaince DB and username both 'postgres') and enter
> password, click 'ok'
> a window comes up warning me of storing password on the disk click 'ok'
> Then I get the error above (it was copy and pasted)
>
> my pg_hba.conf:
> # Database administrative login by Unix domain socket
> local all postgres ident
> # TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD
>
> # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
> local all all ident
> # IPv4 local connections:
> host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
> # IPv6 local connections:
> host all all ::1/128 md5
>
> thanks for your help
>
> Altering user postgres with password 'NNNNNNN';
> made no difference
>
> Bill
>
>
>