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I have a test environment where there exist 2 roles:

group role with Superuser permissions (no login) and
user role that belongs to group.

When I trip the password to expire on this account I am unable to login again and therefore unable to change my password. How is the user to change their password once the valid until expires?

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Another superuser has to change the password for this user. After succesfull login, the user can change his own password again.

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What about in an environment where there is only 1 super user. – Woot4Moo Sep 29 '10 at 13:31
You have to change pg_hba.conf file to allow connections without password, restart the server (to reload the config file), connect without a password (no need anymore) and change your password. After this you have to edit pg_hba.conf again and reload the file again. – Frank Heikens Sep 29 '10 at 14:00
thank you very much Frank, if I had enough rep I would upvote your answer – Woot4Moo Sep 29 '10 at 15:13

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