Can't remember my postgres user password to connect server

Question

I'm working in this Django app but I stopped working on it per two weeks, so my computer was off during this time. Now I want to work on it again this error appear to me over and over again in my command line, I opened pgAdmin and found is because I need my password for my postgres user and I can't remember it. Does anybody knows how to fix this?

Answer 1

The postgres account has no password (by default). You should not be using this account to connect to the database. If you are using a linux distribution, you can execute the following command in order to create another user account that you can use for login:

sudo -u postgres psql -c "create user newuser with superuser password 'new_password_123';"

This way you will create a user with username newuser and password new_password_123

There is also another way to reset the password that is explained in this question.