Floyd Shackelford writes: > i created a user using createuser named "user1" with password "password1" > my pg_hba.conf file has the following entry: > host all 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 password pg_passwd > i try the following: > psql -h 192.168.1.200 -d a_database -U user1 -W > and i enter "password1" (sans quotes) at the password prompt and get: > psql: FATAL 1: SetUserId: user 'user1' is not in 'pg_shadow' > > How do I get this to work? How do i get an entry into pg_shadow? Normally you get one with createuser. Perhaps you have two different postmasters running and the createuser command picked the wrong one? > psql -h 192.168.1.200 -d a_database -U postgres -W > and I get: > psql: Password authentication failed for user 'postgres' By default the postgres user doesn't have a password. You need to give it one first. (See ALTER USER.) -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter-e/
