On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Carlos Mennens <carlos.menn...@gmail.com>wrote:

> I can't understand what is going on with my PostgreSQL server. For
> some reason after I GRANT my role 'carlos' to the 'dba' group role, I
> lose the ability to login. I've reset the password over and over for
> 'carlos' and even reversing the grant doesn't remedy the
> authentication failure. The logs are extremely vague:
>
> 2013-04-14 00:41:52 EDT FATAL:  password authentication failed for user
> "carlos"
>
>
>
How are you doing the above, via psql. pgAdmin, other or some combination?
Do you have a .pgpass file set up?


> As you can see I've removed 'dba' role from 'carlos' but he still
> can't login. My only option is to DROP the 'carlos' role and re-create
> him.
>
> The problem occurs when I:
>
> GRANT dba TO carlos;
>
> I don't understand which role (carlos or dba) needs INHERIT or
> NOINHERIT if that's causing this...
>
>
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