Please Help...
Hi
I'm sure you have had this question many times before but I feel as though I
have genuinely exhausted all of my option and followed all the advise I can find
online.
During installation of Postgresql at the time when it tries to create the
account I get the message ' user account postgress cannot be created because the
password is too short or not complex enough' at which point the install is
terminated. This is driving me nuts as it even says this when it chooses the
password for you which just seems bizarre.
I have literally been researching this for weeks! Now I feel I have reached a
point where this has become an impossible task so I need help from the experts
please :]
Many thanks in advance and sorry if you have been asked this a million times
Gav
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Gavin Burrows <gavin_burrows@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi
I'm sure you have had this question many times before but I feel as though I
have genuinely exhausted all of my option and followed all the advise I can
find online.During installation of Postgresql at the time when it tries to create the
account I get the message ' user account postgress cannot be created because
the password is too short or not complex enough' at which point the install
is terminated. This is driving me nuts as it even says this when it chooses
the password for you which just seems bizarre.
If it's generating the password for you, I assume you're using the
older MSI installers which are largely obsolete now?
In any case, the issue is that for some reason, Windows is refusing to
allow the user account to be created. That's normally because it's not
in compliance with a security policy on the system - almost always
related to password complexity, or age/reuse. You could try creating
the account manually in advance.
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Dave Page
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
Hi Gavin,
On 2010/11/04, at 17:58, Gavin Burrows <gavin_burrows@yahoo.com> wrote:
I'm sure you have had this question many times before but I feel as though I have genuinely exhausted all of my option and followed all the advise I can find online.
During installation of Postgresql at the time when it tries to create the account I get the message ' user account postgress cannot be created because the password is too short or not complex enough' at which point the install is terminated. This is driving me nuts as it even says this when it chooses the password for you which just seems bizarre.
Which tool are you using to install PostgreSQL?
Are you trying to install from source or some binary package?
And which platform are you using? Windows?
I guess I need to know which component produces the message.
Regards,
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NAGAYASU Satoshi <satoshi.nagayasu@gmail.com>
On 04/11/10 16:58, Gavin Burrows wrote:
I have literally been researching this for weeks! Now I feel I have
reached a point where this has become an impossible task so I need help
from the experts please :]
It sounds like you have Group Policy restrictions on password strength
in place.
You need to be more specific. PostgreSQL version, where you got it from,
Windows version, is it on a Windows domain or standalone, etc. If you're
installing on Windows 2008 server than there are password strength
requirements in place by default.
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Craig Ringer
Tech-related writing: http://soapyfrogs.blogspot.com/