You can also try this
As root:
su - postgres
createuser user_name
this will probably allow your user to create and use databases.
Maarten Boekhold wrote:
>
> On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Bernd Johannes Wuebben wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have just installed the latest postgresql rpms on RedHat 5.1:
> >
> > root: rpm -q postgresql
> > postgresql-6.3.2-4
> >
> > root: rpm -q postgresql-data
> > postgresql-data-6.3.2-4
> >
> > However I can't get started with postgres as outlined in the tutorial:
> >
> > wuebben: psql template1
> > Connection to database 'template1' failed.
> > FATAL 1: SetUserId: user "wuebben" is not in "pg_shadow"
>
> Your $PGDATA/pg_hba.conf is probably telling pgsql to require a
> username/password for all databases. Go to the end of this file and
> change 'password' to 'trust', and then restart the postmaster. I guess
> this is an error in the rpm.
>
> > The postmaster is running:
> >
> > root: ps ax | grep post
> > 580 p1 S 0:00 grep post
> > 293 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/postmaster -S -D/var/lib/pgsql
> >
> >
> > Why is psql complaining ( and so are createdb and friends ) about:
> > SetUserId: user "wuebben" is not in "pg_shadow" if psql is not even
> > looking in /var/lib/pg_shadow ( see strace below )? What do I need to
> > do to get started?
>
> It's not psql that is ocmplaining, it is the postmaster, so you're
> stracing the wrong program...
>
> I'll be graduating in very short notice, and I think I'l have a few spare
> days after that that I can use to write something about how postgres deals
> with users etc...
>
> Maarten
>
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