which version of postgres do you have? Put this temporarly into the /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf:
if postgres 8:
local all postgres 127.0.0.1/32 trust
if postgres 7:
local all trust
then connect to template1...:
psql -U postgres -d template1
...and set your password:
alter user postgres with encrypted password 'blablubb';
i hope this works.
regards,
martin
Am Mittwoch, den 09.11.2005, 13:38 +0100 schrieb Marc A. Donis:
I have lost the superuser (user postgres) password, but I still have the unix root password. Is there anything I can do to reset the postgres user's password (short of reinstalling Postgres)? Obviously, I can su to unix user postgres, but this does not seem to advance my cause, as doing "psql -U postgres" still prompts me for a password, which is not the same as the unix postgres user's password. OS: RedHat 9 Help! Thanks, Marc ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
