Re: Fwd: resetting superuser password

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Hi,

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Marc A. Donis wrote:

> I have lost the superuser (user postgres) password, but I still have
> the unix root password.  Is there anything I can do to reset the
> postgres user's password (short of reinstalling Postgres)?

Edit pg_hba.conf and set the auth method to trust. Then reload postgresql.
This will stop PostgreSQL from asking you a password.

Regards,
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