From: | Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> |
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To: | Bill Appelbe <bappelbe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Password authentication failing |
Date: | 2011-12-29 16:47:56 |
Message-ID: | 1325177276.2320.7.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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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.
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Guillaume
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