Re: can't get user authentication to work - HELP!

Floyd Shackelford writes:

> i created a user using createuser named "user1" with password "password1"
> my pg_hba.conf file has the following entry:
> host all 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 password pg_passwd

> i try the following:
> psql -h 192.168.1.200 -d a_database -U user1 -W
> and i enter "password1" (sans quotes) at the password prompt and get:
> psql: FATAL 1: SetUserId: user 'user1' is not in 'pg_shadow'
>
> How do I get this to work? How do i get an entry into pg_shadow?

Normally you get one with createuser. Perhaps you have two different
postmasters running and the createuser command picked the wrong one?

> psql -h 192.168.1.200 -d a_database -U postgres -W
> and I get:
> psql: Password authentication failed for user 'postgres'

By default the postgres user doesn't have a password. You need to give it
one first. (See ALTER USER.)

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