On 3/28/06, lmyho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > Which is good. But I've got big trouble to login to this initial db by > using this auto-created username "postgres" through pgAdmin:((( The first > try failed due to "Ident authentication failed", so I follow the suggestion > on the pop-up window of pgAdmin3, and changed the ident method in the > pg_hba.conf file all to md5 to try again, but the database now ask me for > the password!! which I couldn't figure out the passwd so I tried to created > rules in the pg_ident.conf file to map both the ordinary user and root user > od Debian system to postgres, and tried again. But still failed,:((( > "ident authentication failed"again!!!:((( I've tried many times for all I > could think and failed everytime failed:((( By the way each time before I > try, I did "pg_ctl reload", and I could see the failure reason changed after > I do reload. > > I've sent mail to other list but no anwser back. I believe people in this > group must know what's the reason and solution. So would you please help > me? So if there is auto-created password for this auto-created postgres > user, please anyone tell me what it is??
You could try to change the ident method to trust (in pg_hba.conf). This should allow you to login. Then, set the password of the postgres user (alter user postgres with password 'blabla1212' ; ). Then you could change the ident method back to md5 . Adrian Maier ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org