I cant add a new user to pgSQL.. What is wrong?

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#1Paul Ottar Tornes
critical@tiscali.no

I get this:

idle:/www/maloyportalen.no$ createuser remi
Shall the new user be allowed to create databases? (y/n) y
Shall the new user be allowed to create more new users? (y/n) n
Password:
psql: FATAL 1: Password authentication failed for user "postgres"

createuser: creation of user "remi" failed

I think it might have something to do with pg_hba.conf, so here it is:

local all password
host all 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 password
host maloy 62.101.192.200 255.255.255.0 password
host maloy 80.202.101.84 255.255.255.0 password
host all 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 reject

#2Christoph Dalitz
christoph.dalitz@hs-niederrhein.de
In reply to: Paul Ottar Tornes (#1)
Re: I cant add a new user to pgSQL.. What is wrong?

Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 02:03:28 +0100
From: "Paul Ottar Tornes" <critical@tiscali.no>

I get this:

idle:/www/maloyportalen.no$ createuser remi
Shall the new user be allowed to create databases? (y/n) y
Shall the new user be allowed to create more new users? (y/n) n
Password:
psql: FATAL 1: Password authentication failed for user "postgres"

I had a similiar problem. In my case it was the password input of the
createuser script that seems to be seriously broken (I had to enter the
password four(!) times until it was accepted).

Log in with psql as postgres and issue a CREATE USER command.
That should work reliably.

Christoph Dalitz