On Wednesday 08 July 2009 11:48:08 am Ms swati chande wrote: > Hi, > > I started everything again from scratch. > 1. Created a new user("Swati"), with limited/ restricted rights. > Ensured that no password is set anywhere. How limited? Can this user do administrative tasks, i.e create database,create user? > > 2. Ran initdb from the new user. > c:\postgresql\bin>initdb -D c:\postgresql\data2 > It displayed the DEBUG: start transaction and commit transaction > states etc. and ended with DEBUG: exit(0) > A warning with the following statement was also displayed: > WARNING: enabling "trust" authentication foe local connections > you can change this by editing "pg_hba.conf" or by initdb -A. > > 3. After this I executed pg_ctl: > c:\postgresql\bin>pg_ctl -D c:\postgresql\data2 -l logfile > start got the the message:server starting > and the logfile contained the following: > LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: No error > HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? > If not, wait a few seconds and retry. > WARNING: could not create listen socket for "localhost" > FATAL: could not create any TCP/IP sockets > LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: No error > HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? > If not, wait a few seconds and retry. > WARNING: could not create listen socket for "localhost" > FATAL: could not create any TCP/IP sockets > > 4. To take care of the above issues, > Made the following change in the postgresql.conf file: > listen_addresses = 'xxx.xxx.x.x' (my current ip) > and in pg_hba: > host all all 'xxx.xxx.x.x' trust Can you show the complete pg_hba.conf file? Or to put it another way is the above line the only uncommented line in the file? > > 5.Then issued > c:\postgresql\bin>pg_ctl -D c:\postgresql\data2 -l logfile start > again. > Now got the following in logfile: > LOG: database system was shut down at 2009-07-08 22:34:50 > LOG: database system is ready to accept connections > LOG: autovacuum launcher started > > 6.Opened another command window. > Now when I write in the new window (or even in the same), > c:\postgresql\bin>createdb demo > OR > c:\postgresql\bin>createuser -S -d -R svc > I am prompted for password, I don't know what to enter here. Are you running this as 'Swati' user? > > I think I am making some mistake in pg_hba.conf. Can't make out. > Must be some brainless blunder some where. > > Thanks a ton for sparing your time and bearing with me. > > Please guide. > > Regards > Swati -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general