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Re: Forgotten the master password of db


  • From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
  • To: thiemo <thiemo(at)gmx(dot)ch>, pgNovice <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: Forgotten the master password of db
  • Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 11:59:57 -0700
  • Message-id: <200205191159.57852.josh@agliodbs.com> <text/plain>

thiemo,

> unfortunately I have forgotten the mpassword of the master user of a db. 
> Is there a way to retrieve it using the user who owns the db template1?

No, you can't retrieve it.  You can change it, though, as the postgres user:
ALTER USER the_user WITH PASSWORD 'new_password';

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-Josh Berkus

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