Nicolas Michel <nicolas.michel@lemail.be> writes:
> I tried to put my password in a .pgpass file into the home directory of
> the root user (so /root/.pgpass). Here is a cat of that file :
> *:*:*:*:test
> (I tried only with stars to be sure my rule was not too strict).
> So, il I try this command :
> root@pc:~ # psql -h localhost -U postgres
> I get :
> psql: FATAL: authentification par mot de passe échouée pour
> l'utilisateur « postgres »
If it is not prompting you for a password then it must have successfully
gotten a password out of the file (and then failed because it's the
wrong password). I'm guessing the problem is something silly like extra
trailing space on the line with the password.
regards, tom lane