Re: authentication failure

Try "psql -W" for prompting the password forcefully.

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Jayadevan M <maymala(dot)jayadevan(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to login from psql and consistently getting a
> "psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "xyz"" for all
> users. I am not being prompted for a password at all. I faced a similar
> issue sometime ago because there was a .pgpass file and it had wrong
> entries. This time there is no .pgpass file.
> Any clues? How do I trouble-shoot?
> Other possibly relevant info - this is a chrooted environment. I upgraded
> the OS recently in this env and faced some issues with /dev/null /proc etc
> not being present and so on. Some issues there?
> The database itself is running in the same server in the non-chroot
> environment. I am also running a python application which uses psycopg2 and
> that is working fine.
> Regards,
> Jayadevan
>
>

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