Re: Will not accept password

On Wed, 14 Sept 2022 at 16:52, David Bear <David(dot)Bear(at)heritageacademyaz(dot)com>
wrote:

> I have found that if pgadmin cant reach the postgresql backend, it reports
> a failed password error instead of a failed connection. You might make sure
> you back end is up and reachable.
>

pgAdmin will report whatever the libpq client libraries reports. In this
case, perhaps the username "Postgres" is the problem (the correct spelling
of the default username being "postgres").

>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 2:41 AM John Zuill <joz1(at)me(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi PG
>> I am very new at this. So I was quite baffled when as soon as I tried to
>> access the server, I got “Fatal: password authentication failed for user
>> “Postgres”
>>
>> The password I used was impossible to get wrong. Its three letters.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> John Zuill
>>
>>

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