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Old 04-29-2008, 08:29 PM
Joshua D. Drake
 
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Default Re: Forgot Root Password

Ray Stell wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:00:35AM +0530, Kranti K K Parisa? wrote:
>> Can anyone suggest a way to retrieve/update the postgres root password ?

>
>
> edit pg_hba.conf so that localhost connections from localhost are trusted maybe like
> this:
>
> host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
>
> you have to restart, but then you can do an alter user and so can all the other local
> users.


You do not need to restart, just reload.

pg_ctl -D data reload

Joshua D. Drake



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