On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:04:58AM +0000, lee brown wrote: > > The following bug has been logged online: > > Bug reference: 5211 > Logged by: lee brown > Email address: lee_brown2@xxxxxxx > PostgreSQL version: 8.3 > Operating system: vista > Description: invalid password > Details: > > i accidentally let computer generate password at"initialize database > cluster"stage of installation.is there any way of undoing this > error? This is not a bug, so I'm redirecting to the pgsql-general list, where it belongs. :) Change your pg_hba.conf to allow "trust" auth from localhost, restart the server, use the ALTER USER command to change the password to something else, change pg_hba.conf back, then restart the server again. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general