Re: password authentication failed (postgresql v8.1.4)

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/role-membership.html

According to the above manual page, the command is like:

CREATE ROLE joe LOGIN INHERIT;

(presumably with your WITH PASSWORD and other grants tacked on.)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-admin-
> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Andrea Gozzi
> Sent: 17 June 2006 12:41 pm
> To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: [ADMIN] password authentication failed (postgresql v8.1.4)
>
> Hi.
> I have been upgrading my PG server from version 7.4 (debian sarge
> binary) to v8.1.4 (source installation).
> The installation procedure went fine but I can't log into the database
> with another role/user than 'postgres'.
> This is my pg_hba.conf, that I was succesfully using with v7.4:
>
>
> # Database administrative login by UNIX sockets
> local    all    postgres    ident    sameuser
>
> # All other connections by UNIX sockets
> local    all    all    ident    md5
>
> # All IPv4 connections from localhost
> host    all    admin    0.0.0.0    0.0.0.0    md5
> host    all    bdati    0.0.0.0    0.0.0.0    md5
>
>
> The remote pgAdmin3 obviously doesn't work and neither does the psql
> command if I try to login with 'admin' or 'bdati'.
> Users have been created with
>
> CREATE ROLE admin WITH PASSWORD 'xxx' SUPERUSER;
> CREATE ROLE bdati WITH PASSWORD 'xxx' CREATEDB;
>
> It's probably one of the dumbest questions but I really can't sort it
> out.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrea
>
>
> --
> Andrea Gozzi <andrea.gozzi@linuxrevolution.eu>