Re: PostgreSQL User On Mac OS X

The user should be postgres, passwords can be changed with root privileges.
OS X has a tool for this, don't know the name right now.

Egon


Robert Prather wrote:

> This will likely sound stupid, but I installed PostgreSQL on my Mac a
> few weeks ago and got diverted.  I tried to return to it and discovered
> that I had created a user called "postgre", which is the primary user.
> The user appears in the user list in the System Requirements panel but
> can't be edited, at least not by me.
>
> Now for the stupid part: I forgot the password for that user.  I
> installed it using FINK and everything went well as I recall.  Do I
> need to uninstall the software?  If so, is there an easy way to do
> this?  Or can I somehow retrieve the password for user postgre?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Robert Prather
>
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