Re: [GENERAL] Newbe questions: Setting Passwords

2001-05-16 Thread Tom Lane
>> Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL 1: SetUserId: user 'password=' >> is not in 'pg_shadow' Some kind of syntactic confusion at the client end, evidently: the software is taking "password=" as your username, which I'm pretty sure is not what you intended. reg

Re: [GENERAL] Newbe questions: Setting Passwords

2001-05-16 Thread John Clark Naldoza y Lopez
Anatole Varin wrote: > > Hi, > Thanks for your advice. I set my password as you advised below, however I'm > still having some problems connecting. When I try to connect I get the > following error message: > > Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL 1: SetUserId: user 'password=' > is not

Re: [GENERAL] Newbe questions: Setting Passwords

2001-05-16 Thread Anatole Varin
Hi, Thanks for your advice. I set my password as you advised below, however I'm still having some problems connecting. When I try to connect I get the following error message: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL 1: SetUserId: user 'password=' is not in 'pg_shadow' When connecting I'm u

Re: [GENERAL] Newbe questions: Setting Passwords

2001-05-16 Thread John Clark Naldoza y Lopez
Hi, You could use the following...;-) psql -U postgres template1 UPDATE pg_shadow SET passwd='whatever' WHERE usename='postgres'; You could also use GRANT or create other users as well... kindly check the administrative section of your documentation...;-) Cheers, John Clark