How to upgrade under redhat [was: alter user to change user's password returns pg_shadow: Permission

From: Wayne Johnson <wdtj(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: How to upgrade under redhat [was: alter user to change user's password returns pg_shadow: Permission
Date: 2001-08-01 00:18:59
Message-ID: 3B674AF3.79CA5A53@yahoo.com
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OK, so apparently the solution is to upgrade. My OS is currently RedHat
6.2. I'm a little leary of upgrading Linux at this point. Is there a
way to run Postgresql 7 under RedHat 6.2 or do I have to upgrade?

Wayne Johnson wrote:
>
> According to the Postgresql manual, a user can alter their own
> password. When I try:
> alter user "test" with password "zzzz";
> Where test is the user id signed in with, I get the error:
> ERROR: pg_shadow: Permission denied.
>
> What am I overlooking?
>
> Tia,
>
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