RE: POSTGres

[LENGARD Pascal OCISI <pascal.lengard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> /etc/passwd and check the password string alongside the user
> 'postgres' (In
> my case it was '!!').  Return to shell, and do a passwd
> postgres and set the
> password to anything, say 'abc'.  Now login as postgres and do a
...
> databases, and to add new users.  Log in again as root, edit
> the /etc/passwd
> file and remove the password hash string (for 'abc') with !!

when you are root, just use:
su - postgres

to become user postgres without having to modify the file /etc/passwd.
you do not need to have a valid user password for that.

hope this helps

pascal

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