On 15/04/2010 10:14 PM, Aditya Vats wrote:
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5424 Logged by: Aditya Vats Email address: aditya.v...@cerner.com PostgreSQL version: 8.4.2-1 Operating system: Windows Vista Description: Not able to Install Details: While installing I am getting an error saying : The password specified was incorrect.Please enter the correct password for the postgress windows user account.
If you installed PostgreSQL before, you set a password then. You need to enter that password. If you only have 8.4 installed, ie you don't have any other PostgreSQL versions installed, then it's safe to reset the password for the postgres user account.
It's also possible that due to a recently-discovered installer bug, if you mis-typed the password the first time it stored it anyway and *then* told you the passwords didn't match, in which case you'll probably have to reset the password.
Unfortunately the PostgreSQL installer doesn't offer you any way to reset the password from within the installer.
You can reset it using the standard windows tools. You should be able to find Computer Management in the Start menu, under All Programs -> Administrative Tools. If not, open up the Control Panel, switch it to classic view, open Administrative Tools, then Computer Management.
Within Computer Management open up Local Users and Groups, then "Users". You'll see the postgres account there and can reset its password if required.
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