Re: password authentication failed for user postgres

Great. You managed to start server. :-)

You are using user postgres and you shoudn't use it.I suggest you to
create your own dbadmin...

In your linux box, as root user:

su - postgres
createuser -s dbadmin -P

You will create a new user called dbadmin. It will ask you for a
password for this user and some extra options. Response YES to all.

Now you can connect remotely with this dbadmin user.

-----Original Message-----
From: Major Services <services(dot)major(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Iñigo Martinez Lasala <imartinez(at)vectorsf(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] password authentication failed for user postgres
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 20:07:23 +0530

Finally, I am able to create a user.

Now when I try to connect to the server through DBWebAdmin (in
Parallels Plesk Panel); I get the following :
Error: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"

(earlier, with this link I could reach the login screen for PgAdmin )

Do I need to remove the following from pg_hba.conf now?
local all postgres ident sameuser

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Iñigo Martinez Lasala
<imartinez(at)vectorsf(dot)com> wrote:
> In order to lauch createuser you don't need to modify listen_address since
> you can use unix sockets. But anyway it's a requirement if you are goint to
> access remotely.
>
> Add this line in first place to your pg_hba.conf
> local all postgres ident sameuser
>
>
> Reload postgresql and launch createuser as postgres user.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Major Services <services(dot)major(at)gmail(dot)com>
> To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [ADMIN] password authentication failed for user postgres
> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:13:10 +0530
>
> Hi,
>
> 1. I have added listen_addresses = '*' ; in postgresql.conf
>
> 2. And have made the following changes to pg_hba.conf
>
> local DATABASE USER METHOD
> local samegroup all password
> host DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD [OPTION]
>

> hostssl all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5
>
> 3. Have restarted the server
>
> 4. I can login to the server as user postgres.
>
> But while trying to createuser I get the following message :
> 'createuser: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL :
> password authentication failed for user "postgres"
>
> This is on Redhat running Plesk also.
>
> I am new to Linux as well as PostgreSQL. Help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Viv
>
>
>