Re: Login problem

On Dec 18, 2005, at 5:44 AM, Danjel Jungersen wrote:

> Below are instructions on how to login without a password, and a
> point in the direction on how to change it, but I keep getting:
> psql: FATAL: User "me" does not exist.
>
> After some tries I got pass the database does not exist ;-)
>
> Is there a user that is allways there, or can I see a list somewhere
> ?
> The "postmaster" is mentioned, so I have tried that "root" and
> "Postmaster", no luck...
>


The default superuser name is "postgres". There is generally a  
default database called template1. In PostgreSQL 8.1 and later, I  
believe the default database name has changed to "postgres" as well.  
So try

psql -U postgres template1

or

psql -U postgres postgres

John



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