You can change the password at any time. Use the MMC snapin "Local Users
and Groups" in Windows - it's just a standard user. (This snapin is also
available from the Computer Management MMC console). This assume Win2000
or newer. If you're on NT4, yo use "User Manager".

Or you can run "net user postgres MyNewPassword" on the commandline to
change the password to MyNewPassword. This should work on all supported
versions.


//Magnus


-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
[mailtogsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Rick Schumeyer
Sent: den 7 januari 2005 17:28
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: [ADMIN] updating windows installation



Last month I installed the windows version of 8.0 RC1. The
installation

installed postgresql as a service with user "postgres", and an
associated

password. "postgres" is a service user, not a standard user.



Yesterday, I uninstalled 8.0 RC1 and then installed 8.0 RC3.
That worked,

once I realized that the "postgres" service user was never
deleted, and

that I could only install RC3 if I remembered the password from
RC1. I guess

I could also use a different name for the service user.



It seems that I may be able to change the password for the
postgres service

user IF postgres is still registered as a service (before I
uninstall). But, if I have

already uninstalled postgres, can I still change the password of
delete the user?