Re: cannot access postgresql 7.3 via pgadmin III

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgadmin-support-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgadmin-support-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Amit Sharma
> Sent: 24 May 2005 12:02
> To: pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
> Subject: [pgadmin-support] cannot access postgresql 7.3 via
> pgadmin III
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to access postgresql version 7.3 using pgadmin
> III from windows
> 2000 OS but i always keep getting the error Fatal - password
> authentication
> failed for user root. i have allowed access in the
> pg_hba.conf file for all
> users to access all databases by the defined ip's but still
> whenever i try
> to access the database from pgadmin remotely i get the error Fatal -
> password authentication failed for user root. I have also a
> set tcp ip =
> true in postgresql.conf. Can you please give me some hints as
> to what could
> be the problem.

Do you have a PostgreSQL user called root? The PostgreSQL superuser
account is normally 'postgres'.

Regards. Dave.