| From: | "Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
|---|---|
| To: | Kevin Lo <jwlo(at)ms11(dot)hinet(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, Louis Zirkel III <lzirkel(at)cleverly(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] pg_hba.conf and crypt |
| Date: | 1999-05-06 21:05:42 |
| Message-ID: | 199905062105.WAA12878@linda.lfix.co.uk |
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Kevin Lo wrote:
>Hi, Oliver,
>
>I follow your instructions to do on my local machine, edit the file
>pg_hba.conf:
>
>local all password
>host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 crypt
>
>then I connect with psql, use the -u option, I got the following errors:
>
>% psql -u
>Username: postgres
>Password:
>
>User authentication failed
>Connection to database 'postgres' failed.
>User authentication failed
You must set a password for postgres before you change pg_hba.conf, using
`ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD xxxxx'. It sounds as if you haven't
done this.
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Oliver Elphick Oliver(dot)Elphick(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk
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