Re: How to create a user with password

use the utility pg_passwd. The argument is the file that will hold the
passwords
$pg_passwd passfile
Username:postgres
New password:
Re-enter new password:

-----Original Message-----
From: Web Administrator [mailto:webadmin(at)ucsd-pps(dot)ucsd(dot)edu]
Sent: quarta-feira, 3 de abril de 2002 14:07
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Jin, Hong
Subject: [ADMIN] How to create a user with password

Hi, all:

In the file of pg_hba.conf, I give the following parameter:

TYPE DATABASE IP_ADDRESS MASK
AUTH_TYPE AUTH_ARGUMENT
Local all
password
host all 127.122.122.0 255.255.255.0
password

Now look what I got:

$su postgres
bash$psql template1
$password

What is the password for user 'postgres' ? How can I
create one for this user?

bash$createuser dbadmin
Shall the new user be allowed to create database?(y/n) y
Shall the new user be allowed to create more new user? (y/n) y
password: 'dbadminpassword'
FATAL 1: password authentication failed for user "postgres"
Createuser: creation of user 'dbadmin' failed

If I change the config setting to

Local all trust

I can login to template1 database and create users and
databases, but I fail to give a password to a user. Look:

$su postgres
bash$createuser dbadmin with password 'dbpassword'

Now it seems the 'dbpasswod' became the created user.

Anybody knows how to create password for 'postgres' ? How to
create a user with password?

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Hong Jin
h1jin(at)ucsd(dot)edu