Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Lane Van Ingen wrote:
>> Does anyone know what the initial user/password should be? Thanks.

> Probably postgres without a password but with ident authentication, 
> which means you must log in as the postgres user on your OS.  (That one 
> probably doesn't have a password either, so go through root.)

ie, something like

        sudo su - postgres -c "psql"

Since the default is ident auth, even if you'd assigned a password it
would be irrelevant to whether you could get into the database or not.
If you want to use passwords to control that, you'll need to edit
pg_hba.conf.

                        regards, tom lane

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