Subject: Re: Password user postgres
From: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
To: marnaudo@inwind.it
Cc: PosgreSQL Mailing List <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
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Date: 22 Dec 2002 23:27:01 +0000
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On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 14:22, Arnaudo Massimo wrote:
> Hi everibody,
> i have to see the table pg_shadow, but i don't remind the default password
> for user postgres in a Debian system.

The Debian packages do not set any password.

Their default access is "ident sameuser", meaning that you can connect
using your Unix login name, provided that user has also been created as
a PostgreSQL user.  The PostgreSQL superuser is 'postgres'.

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