Wayne Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to the Postgresql manual, a user can alter their own > password. When I try: > alter user "test" with password "zzzz"; > Where test is the user id signed in with, I get the error: > ERROR: pg_shadow: Permission denied. Works for me. What version are you running? BTW, any reasonably recent version of PG will object to that style of quoting --- the password in ALTER USER is a string literal, not an identifier, so it needs single quotes not double quotes. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster