Hi,

This happened to me before and the problem was with the 'postgres' Windows account that was created during the first install. If you don't specify a password for this account, the installer will choose a very hard to guess, hard to remember password :-). I logged in as an administrator and removed the postgres user account and let the installer re-create it. You also have the option of manually setting the password for this account, then telling the installer what that password is.

I don't know if your problem is the same as the one I experienced, but I hope this helps.

Rommel.

Goutham Naval wrote:

Hi,

I installed postgreSQL 8.3 on windows and changed few settings for ssl. After which I uninstalled it by executing the .msi file again. My intention was to reinstall from scratch, and unfortunately during the reinstall I am getting a error

'Invalid username specified: logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.'

I am providing valid windows user name and pwd.

How can I get past this issue, please help.

Thanks.

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