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
wuebben@math.cornell.edu                        wuebben@acm.org
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