Hi
I am having a little trouble managing my databases. I have 2. I am trying to backup the live one but I keep getting and "Access denied" error. I have the current admin password to manage databases. I can create a new database and I can change the password but I cannot backup this database. I know for a fact that the current password to manage databases is NOT the one that was used when this database was created. It was changed from the original one as it was illogical and didn't fit our name conventions. Is it so that databases can only be managed using their original creation passwords and not using the existing database admin password?
If so, how can I find what password was used to create this database? If not, what else could be denying me access?
Thanks
I have done a little more searching and have found that the above does seem to be the case. Thanks Martin Bramwell for this explanation http://help.openerp.com/question/478/what-difference-is-there-between-the-admin-and-master-pass/#487. My Question is now, I do have access to Postgres on this server, where can I see the database password or how can i safely change it? Thanks
This behaviour can be caused by having odoo 8 installed on one application server and Postgres 9.3 on another, as database server (9.3) and your local pg_dump (9.1) mismatch. Odoo will report a different error, something like you need to set .pgpass ... But, if you run the pg_dump command manually from the application server you will get the correct error. If you look at the db.py code you will see that the server is executing the same command in the background when trying to backup your database. You can ether upgrade pg_dump - this means installing posgres 9.3 on application server (not to use as a database, just the pg_dump) or running the backup command manually on database server.