Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Lane Van Ingen wrote:
>> Does anyone know what the initial user/password should be? Thanks.
> Probably postgres without a password but with ident authentication,
> which means you must log in as the postgres user on your OS. (That one
> probably doesn't have a password either, so go through root.)
ie, something like
sudo su - postgres -c "psql"
Since the default is ident auth, even if you'd assigned a password it
would be irrelevant to whether you could get into the database or not.
If you want to use passwords to control that, you'll need to edit
pg_hba.conf.
regards, tom lane