Ah... ok. In /var/lib/pgsql you will find a file called pgstartup.log Could you post here last lines of this file ?
-----Original Message----- From: Major Services <[email protected]> To: Iñigo Martinez Lasala <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADMIN] password authentication failed for user postgres Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:40:47 +0530 But the server restart has failed; I am yet to make the changes suggested by you in the first instance. On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Iñigo Martinez Lasala <[email protected]> wrote: Try with these parameters in pg_hba.conf. Perhaps your postgres-redhat compilation does not have ident enabled... local all postgres trust -----Original Message----- From: Major Services <[email protected]> To: Iñigo Martinez Lasala <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] password authentication failed for user postgres Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:03:59 +0530 Thank you for your message. But am in another problem now. In between I also tried to restart the server with 'service postgresql restart' It stopped the server, but then server start failed. Had restarted earlier also, without a problem. What should I do? On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Iñigo Martinez Lasala <[email protected]> wrote: > In order to lauch createuser you don't need to modify listen_address since > you can use unix sockets. But anyway it's a requirement if you are goint to > access remotely. > > Add this line in first place to your pg_hba.conf > local all postgres ident sameuser > > > Reload postgresql and launch createuser as postgres user. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Major Services <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ADMIN] password authentication failed for user postgres > Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:13:10 +0530 > > Hi, > > 1. I have added listen_addresses = '*' ; in postgresql.conf > > 2. And have made the following changes to pg_hba.conf > > local DATABASE USER METHOD > local samegroup all password > host DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD [OPTION] > host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5 > hostssl all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5 > > 3. Have restarted the server > > 4. I can login to the server as user postgres. > > But while trying to createuser I get the following message : > 'createuser: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL : > password authentication failed for user "postgres" > > This is on Redhat running Plesk also. > > I am new to Linux as well as PostgreSQL. Help would be much appreciated. > > Thanks > Viv > > >
