topic Alfresco 4.2c bundle: createuser does not work in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-4-2c-bundle-createuser-does-not-work/m-p/291294#M244424 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>although my problem is solved, I just want to tell. Maybe someone has the same problem.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>During the installation of above mentioned bundle on Ubuntu 12.04LTS, I get:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />Warnung: Fehler beim Ausführen eines Post-Install-Schrittes.<BR />Die Installation ist möglicherweise nicht korrekt abgeschlossen worden.<BR />Fehler beim Ausführen /opt/alfresco-4.2.c/postgresql/bin/createuser -p 5432 -U <BR />postgres –no-superuser –no-createdb –no-createrole alfresco : createuser.bin: <BR />could not connect to database postgres: FATAL:&nbsp; password authentication failed<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I tried easy-install and advanced, but always the same problem. I searched the web and found some hints of how to set a password for the postgresql-user: </SPAN><BR /><A href="http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/PostgreSQL" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/PostgreSQL</A><BR /><SPAN>To try this I installed the postgresql-client, but this did not help. I found a thread to reset the password for postgresql:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://scratching.psybermonkey.net/2009/06/postgresql-how-to-reset-user-name.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://scratching.psybermonkey.net/2009/06/postgresql-how-to-reset-user-name.html</A><BR /><SPAN>This thread shows how to reconfigure postgresql to connect without a password. - Did not help either.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So I wiped out the Alfresco-installation again and tried another install. This time I used a password without any special characters (only upper- and lower-case letters and numbers) and this time the installation worked. So it seems, that one of these two things helped&nbsp; <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Regards,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Karl</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:23:10 GMT karls0 2013-06-24T09:23:10Z Alfresco 4.2c bundle: createuser does not work https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-4-2c-bundle-createuser-does-not-work/m-p/291294#M244424 Hi,although my problem is solved, I just want to tell. Maybe someone has the same problem.During the installation of above mentioned bundle on Ubuntu 12.04LTS, I get:Warnung: Fehler beim Ausführen eines Post-Install-Schrittes.Die Installation ist möglicherweise nicht korrekt abgeschlossen worden.Feh Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:23:10 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-4-2c-bundle-createuser-does-not-work/m-p/291294#M244424 karls0 2013-06-24T09:23:10Z Re: Alfresco 4.2c bundle: createuser does not work https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-4-2c-bundle-createuser-does-not-work/m-p/291295#M244425 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You're right, Karl, avoiding special characters in the password made the trick for me. I had a password with "$" and after trying all sorts of solutions, just removing that char solved the problem. Thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:29:31 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-4-2c-bundle-createuser-does-not-work/m-p/291295#M244425 fabiob 2014-03-17T14:29:31Z