psql: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user “dev”

Question

when i create a new user, but it cannot login the database.
I do that like this:

postgres@Aspire:/home/XXX$ createuser dev
Shall the new role be a superu         


        

Answer 1

The easiest solution:

CREATE USER dev WITH PASSWORD 'dev';
CREATE DATABASE test_development;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE test_development to dev;
ALTER ROLE dev CREATEROLE CREATEDB;