On Sunday 16 January 2011 16:02:12 Raymond O'Donnell wrote: > If you have configured PG to listen on a TCP/IP port (5432 by default), > you can also do: > > psql -U postgres -h localhost super > > Ray. Thanks Ray, My psql seems a lot different from others. Loook what happened: slitt@mydesk:~$ psql -U postgres -h localhost super Password for user postgres: psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres" FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres" slitt@mydesk:~$ psql -U postgres -h 127.0.0.1 super Password for user postgres: psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres" FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres" slitt@mydesk:~$ My postgresql.conf configures the port at 5433 instead of 5432, so I also tried this: slitt@mydesk:~$ psql -U postgres -h localhost -p 5433 super Password for user postgres: psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres" FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres" slitt@mydesk:~$ Thanks Steve Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general