Re: cannot access postgresql 7.3 via pgadmin III

["Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amit Sharma [mailto:amit(dot)sharma(at)wificom(dot)com] 
> Sent: 24 May 2005 13:38
> To: Dave Page; pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: RE: [pgadmin-support] cannot access postgresql 7.3 
> via pgadmin III
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Yeah the output of select * from pg_user; returns two values.
> 
> 1. root (usesysid - 100)with some password in encrypted form
> 2. postgres (usesysid - 1) with password in encrypted form
> 
> What is the password of the user postgres???, so i can try to 
> connect via
> this one and check.

I have no idea - it's your system :-)

Try setting the password using ALTER USER root WITH PASSWORD 'password';
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-alteruser.html).  My
guess is that no password is currently set, so you cannot login remotely
because one is required.

BTW, you might want to change the password entries in pg_hba.conf to md5
as well - this will prevent plain text passwords being sent over the
wire.

Regards, Dave