Re: Newbe questions: Setting Passwords

Anatole Varin wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Thanks for your advice. I set my password as you advised below, however I'm
> still having some problems connecting. When I try to connect I get the
> following error message:
>
> Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL 1: SetUserId: user 'password='
> is not in 'pg_shadow'
>
> When connecting I'm using username "postgres" and the password that I used
> when I updated the pg_shadow file as suggested. Any ideas???
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > You could use the following...;-)
> >
> >
> > psql -U postgres template1
> >
> > UPDATE pg_shadow SET passwd='whatever' WHERE usename='postgres';
> >


I don't believe I've had the pleasure of this problem before...;-)

Would you mind showing us your exact command, that you tried to execute
to get into your postgresql database?  (Maybe a little cut and
paste...;-))

Is your PostgreSQL database part of your server?  Or at another
server...

And kindly check this file (I assuming youe got PostgreSQL 7.x)

/var/lib/pgsql/data/postmaster.opts.default

If you have a "-i" in this file.

HTH,


Cheers,


John Clark