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Subject: Re: How to debug: password authentication failed for user
To: Alexander Farber <alexander.farber@gmail.com>
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On 2/27/25 10:14, Alexander Farber wrote:
> That seems to be the reason, thank you Adrian.
> 
> At first connecting from the other pod in the AKS cluster does not work:
> 
> $ PGPASSWORD=timeshift_pass psql --host=timeshiftservice --port=5432 
> --dbname=timeshift_database --username=timeshift_user
> psql: error: connection to server at "timeshiftservice" (10.0.120.194), 
> port 5432 failed: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "t
> imeshift_user"
> 
> But once I connect to my PostgreSQL pod (or is it called "container"? I 
> am always confused by that) and run locally
> 
> $ psql -U postgres
> psql (17.4)
> Type "help" for help.
> 
> timeshift_database=# ALTER ROLE timeshift_user PASSWORD 'timeshift_pass';
> ALTER ROLE
> 
> Then the connection from the other pod works immediately

My guess it has to do with:

-c 'ALTER USER timeshift_user PASSWORD '"'"'timeshift_pass'"'"';'

I am still trying to work out what that quoting is doing?

> 
> 
> 

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Adrian Klaver
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