On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:09 AM, Arup Rakshit <aruprakshit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to follow what has been mentioned below **Setting Up Postgres** (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-setup-ruby-on-rails-with-postgres). > > But no luck! > > [shreyas@myapp(add_postgres_addapter)]$ su - postgres > Password: > su: Sorry > [shreyas@myapp (add_postgres_addapter)]$ > > It is asking me the password, whereas I don't know the password of the user `postgres`. How would I create a new role with a password in this case ? I'm not a Mac person. But, on Linux, what I do is: [shreyas@myapp(add_postgres_addapter)]$ sudo su - #change to root [root@myapp(add_postgres_addapter)]# su - postgres # change to postgres [postgres@myapp(add_postgres_addapter)]$ #do work as user postgres [postgres@myapp(add_postgres_addapter)]$exit #return to root [root@myapp(add_postgres_addapter)]# exit #return to my normal user [shreyas@myapp(add_postgres_addapter)]$ Note that the above is just my editing of what I _think_ you _might_ see. The commands are correct. This assumes you have authority to do the "sudo su -" to change to root. This is how I change to root because it does not require that I use the root password. Once in root, you can "su postgres" to change to the postgres user, without a password. Another possibility, again using sudo would be to change the password on the postgres user like: [user@system]$ sudo passwd postgres Changing password for user postgres. New password: Retype new password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully. [user@system]$ > > I am using OS X version 10.8.2 > Regards, > Arup Rakshit -- If you sent twitter messages while exploring, are you on a textpedition? He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
