From postgresql-admin  Fri Aug 14 06:24:45 1998
From: Bernd Johannes Wuebben <wuebben () math ! cornell ! edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 06:24:45 +0000
To: postgresql-admin
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] FATAL 1: SetUserId:
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=postgresql-admin&m=90307592615389


Hello John, 

        thanks for your suggestion,

On 13-Aug-98 JOHN COOK wrote:
>
> If you do not have the password for it, log it as 'root', then type
> 'passwd postgres' and enter a new password.  Log out and log back in as
> postgres.  Then "createuser username".  You should be able to log out,

root: su - postgres
[postgres@petit pgsql]$ createuser wuebben
Connection to database 'template1' failed.
FATAL 1:  SetUserId: user "postgres" is not in "pg_shadow"
createuser: database access failed.
[postgres@petit pgsql]$  

but it still doesn't work. How do I get anyone into pg_shadow?

Bernd

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Bernd Johannes Wuebben                          wuebben@kde.org
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