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Asked: 2026-06-15T13:48:49+00:00

Hi I’ve tried looking around for an answer but don’t know how to access

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Hi I’ve tried looking around for an answer but don’t know how to access my local machine’s postgresql username and password. I’m a big noob when it comes to the command line and bash and etc, so please help. Can someone help in helping me find out my username and password for postgres on a Mac?

Edmunds-MacBook-Pro:postgres edmundmai$ psql -d db -U postgres
Password for user postgres: 
psql: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "postgres"
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    I don’t know of a way to recover a password from PostgreSQL. However, if you add local all all trust to your pg_hba.conf file, it will allow you to log into the cluster without a password from your local machine. Once you’ve made the change, restart the server to get it to take effect, and then you can log in and change your password. Once you’re done, be sure to remove this line from your pg_hba.conf and restart the server, as this isn’t particularly secure.

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