Re: help with - psql: FATAL: Password authentication failed

From: "Lic(dot) Guillermo González" <g(dot)gonzalez(at)cybira(dot)biz>
To: Sukhdeep Johar <sukhdeep(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: help with - psql: FATAL: Password authentication failed
Date: 2004-12-28 13:15:56
Message-ID: 41D15C8C.7080600@cybira.biz
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Sukhdeep Johar wrote:
> I followed these steps to create a new user :
> 1. createuser -P gforge
> 2. createdb -U gforge -E UNICODE gforge
> 3. createlang plpgsql gforge
>
> this gave no errors.
> But when I try to log in, I get the foll error
> # psql -h localhost -U gforge gforge
> psql: FATAL: Password authentication failed for user "gforge"
>
> Any comments, what may be going wrong ?
> --
> Neither success nor failure is ever final
>
>
Did you check your pg_hba.conf for gforge database access permisions?

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