"Lane Van Ingen" <lvaningen@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > We created our PostgreSQL instance by compiling it from source, and the > instance is working just fine. User postgres runs the service; we do not > know what the password is, and we think it got created automatically by the > compile / install process. Are you sure it even *has* a password? In the default RPM installation, user postgres is created without any password --- the only way to become postgres is to su there from root, and if you've got root you hardly need to crack into postgres. regards, tom lane
