Try "psql -W" for prompting the password forcefully.
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Jayadevan M <maymala.jayade...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to login from psql and consistently getting a > "psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "xyz"" for all > users. I am not being prompted for a password at all. I faced a similar > issue sometime ago because there was a .pgpass file and it had wrong > entries. This time there is no .pgpass file. > Any clues? How do I trouble-shoot? > Other possibly relevant info - this is a chrooted environment. I upgraded > the OS recently in this env and faced some issues with /dev/null /proc etc > not being present and so on. Some issues there? > The database itself is running in the same server in the non-chroot > environment. I am also running a python application which uses psycopg2 and > that is working fine. > Regards, > Jayadevan > > -- -- Thanks & Regards, Ashesh Vashi EnterpriseDB INDIA: Enterprise PostgreSQL Company<http://www.enterprisedb.com> *http://www.linkedin.com/in/asheshvashi*<http://www.linkedin.com/in/asheshvashi>
