Re: Can db user change own password?

Hi Adrian,

Thank you for your help. The issue was that when user logged into database his session_user user was set as owner of
databaseautomatically. User had success to change password when session_user = current_user was set before. 

BR,
Toomas

> On 20. Oct 2021, at 17:45, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/20/21 07:38, Toomas wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Is there any possibilities that db user can change own password?
>> There is no difference does the user uses ALTER command or \password meta-command, result is the same - response is
“permissiondenied”. 
>> dbname=> \password
>> Enter new password:
>> Enter it again:
>> ERROR:  permission denied
>
> Works for me, you will need to supply more information:
>
> 1) Postgres version?
>
> 2) User you are connecting as?
>
> 3) Output of \du <user_name>
>
>> BR,
>> Toomas
>
>
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> Adrian Klaver
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