Re: password authentication failed for user postgres

Finally, I am able to create a user.

Now when I try to connect to the server through DBWebAdmin (in
Parallels Plesk Panel); I get the following :
Error: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"

(earlier, with this link I could reach the login screen for PgAdmin )

 Do I need to remove the following from pg_hba.conf now?
 local   all         postgres                          ident sameuser





On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Iñigo Martinez Lasala
<imartinez@vectorsf.com> wrote:
> In order to lauch createuser you don't need to modify listen_address since
> you can use unix sockets. But anyway it's a requirement if you are goint to
> access remotely.
>
> Add this line in first place to your pg_hba.conf
> local   all         postgres                          ident sameuser
>
>
> Reload postgresql and launch createuser as postgres user.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Major Services <services.major@gmail.com>
> To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: [ADMIN] password authentication failed for user postgres
> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:13:10 +0530
>
> Hi,
>
> 1. I have added  listen_addresses = '*' ; in  postgresql.conf
>
> 2. And have made the following changes to pg_hba.conf
>
> local   DATABASE    USER   METHOD
> local    samegroup      all      password
> host    DATABASE    USER    CIDR-ADDRESS  METHOD  [OPTION]
> host          all                 all       0.0.0.0/0             md5
> hostssl      all                 all       0.0.0.0/0            md5
>
> 3. Have restarted the server
>
> 4. I can login to the server as user postgres.
>
> But  while trying to createuser I get the following message  :
> 'createuser: could not connect to database postgres:  FATAL :
> password authentication failed for user "postgres"
>
> This is on Redhat running Plesk also.
>
> I am new to Linux as well as PostgreSQL. Help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Viv
>
>
>