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PostgreSQL - using password/md5 authentication with empty password

I have the following role in my system: CREATE ROLE test LOGIN INHERIT NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE NOREPLICATION; There is no password. Trying to connect to the db from within the same machine using ...
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Unable to reset the password of users in postgres

Evrytime i run, su - postgres it asks me for a password which I did not set. I simply installed the postgres. I have gone to the pg_hba.conf. # Database administrative login by Unix domain socket ...
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postgres and passwordless authentication

We have users for out postgres database and none have passwords... Do not know the history behind it. When I try to use clients to connect to these databases, for instance, pgadmin III, the ...
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Delay after running pg_ctl reload [closed]

Recently, I made changes to my Postgres 8.3 database - added a couple new users and added these roles to the pg_hba.conf file. However, after running pg_ctl reload -D [DB directory], the changes ...
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Transferring concepts - users/groups/permissions of db objects from mysql to postgresql

This seemed like a better fit here than stackoverflow, so here goes: I've been using mysql for a while since on most of the cheap webhosts it is the provided database. However, now I've started ...