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2008/2/21 Wolfgang Rodriguez <mayckmarck@hotmail.com>:
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> Saludos a todos.
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> Se me presenta el siguiente problema: olvidé y extravié la clave o password
> del usuario postgres y no puedo accesar las distintas bases de datos.
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> Por favor, alguien sabe cómo podría recuperar esta clave o password?
> Me han dicho que si vuelvo a instalar la aplicación, es decir, el manejador
> de postgres, puedo perder toda la información de las bases de datos.
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is this the password for the OS user "postgres" or the DB role "postgres"?
if the former you tell that to your sysadmin in order to him to reset it...
then change the pg_hba.conf file and put trust as the method
authorization for local access or maybe sameuser then reset it with
ALTER ROLE
of course, you need access to the machine...
--
Atentamente,
Jaime Casanova
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
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