Re: help with - psql: FATAL: Password authentication failed

Sukhdeep Johar wrote:
> I followed these steps to create a new user :
> 1. createuser -P gforge
> 2. createdb -U gforge -E UNICODE gforge
> 3. createlang plpgsql gforge
>
> this gave no errors.
> But when I try to log in, I get the foll error
> # psql -h localhost -U gforge gforge
> psql: FATAL:  Password authentication failed for user "gforge"
>
> Any comments, what may be going wrong ?
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> Neither success nor failure is ever final
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Did you check your pg_hba.conf for gforge database access permisions?