On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Arup Rakshit <arupraks...@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I am trying to follow what has been mentioned below **Setting Up > Postgres** ( > https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-setup-ruby-on-rails-with-postgres > ). > > But no luck! > > [shreyas@myapp(add_postgres_addapter)]$ su - postgres > Password: > su: Sorry > [shreyas@myapp (add_postgres_addapter)]$ > > It is asking me the password, whereas I don't know the password of the > user `postgres`. How would I create a new role with a password in this case > ? > The user whose password has visibly been lost is not the database user postgres, but the OS user postgres. If you have root on this server access, simply enforce the password to a new value. -- Michael
