Re: pg_dumpall: could not connect to database "template1": FATAL:

Hi Adrian,

thank you for the answer.
There is one password for the postgres database and one for the postgres user.
Both are not working somehow. Is there a way to look up the passwords? I saw in the documentation that there is a .pgpass file. But I can't find it.

I changed the auth method to trust for all users. This worked for now.
Thank you.

Best Regards,
Robert

> On 12 Nov 2016, at 23:31, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 11/12/2016 01:20 PM, aws backup wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I try to make pg_dumpall backups from a PostgreSQL 9.5 server which is part of the DaVinci Resolve 12.5.3 App on a Mac OS X 10.11.6 system.
>>
>> Unfortunately I get following failure message:
>>
>> pg_dumpall: could not connect to database "template1": FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres"
>>
>> Maybe you can help me to solve this problem.
>
> Two choices:
>
> 1) Determine what the password is for the postgres user and provide it when you connect.
>
> 2) If you have access to the pg_hba.conf file create a access line that uses trust as the auth method for user postgres connect that way.
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/auth-methods.html#AUTH-TRUST
>
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Robert
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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