Re: Getting started with first user.

["Raymond O'Donnell" <rod@xxxxxx>]

On 09/01/18 09:48, Agnar Renolen wrote:
> Then trying with the -U postgres option.
>
> root> createuser -U postgres me
> createuser: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL: Peer 
> authentication failed for user "postgres"

You need to specify the host as well, to force a TCP/IP connection:

  createuser -U postgres -h localhost me

The default pg_hba.conf on Debian uses a Unix socket and peer 
authentication, hence the error you're seeing.

Ray.

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