On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 13:24, Jasbinder Bali wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to connect to the local postgres database using pgadmin. > It > > asks for a password that i never set and hence i'm not able to > connect > > to my local postgres database. > > Also, when i click postgresql help option in the Help tab of > pgadmin, > > the pgadmin screen would close down. Don't know whats going on > wrong. > > Take a look here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/client-authentication.html Basically, the password isn't set yet. You may or may not need to set one depending on how you configure pg_hba.conf