Re: psql: FATAL: Password authentication failed for

Use psql -U postgres

Dave
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 07:38, Sudhakar Kurumella wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using postgresql windows based "8.0-beta2-dev3". I have provided
> default user and password while installing. When i am trying to
> connecto to psql through dos command prompt, i am getting following
> error:
>
> [D:\Postgresql\8.0-beta2-dev3\bin]psql
> psql: FATAL: Password authentication failed for user "Administrator"
>
> I dont have user named "Administrator", i have only user "postgres"
> and my "pg_hba.conf" details are:
>
> # TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD
> local all postgres md5
> # IPv4-style local connections:
> host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
> # IPv6-style local connections:
> #host all all ::1/128 md5
>
> My question is how to connect postgres through the dos command prompt,
> to use commands such as pg_dump etc..
>
> thanks,
> kuru
>
>
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