thiemo,
> unfortunately I have forgotten the mpassword of the master user of a db.
> Is there a way to retrieve it using the user who owns the db template1?
No, you can't retrieve it. You can change it, though, as the postgres user:
ALTER USER the_user WITH PASSWORD 'new_password';
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