psql: FATAL: role "vagrant" does not exist

Question

I created a vagrant instance and I am getting this error every time I try and do psql in the terminal How would Fix it. the error is as states:

psql: FATAL: role "vagrant" does not exist

I thought vagrant takes care of this? This is my vagrant file:

Vagrant.require_plugin "vagrant-omnibus"
Vagrant.require_plugin "vagrant-berkshelf"

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|

  # Box config
  config.vm.box = 'precise64'
  config.vm.box_url = 'http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box'

  # Plugin config
  config.omnibus.chef_version = :latest
  config.berkshelf.enabled = true

  # Network config
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 3000, host: 3000

  # Virtual config
  config.vm.provider(:virtualbox) do |vb|
    vb.customize [
      "modifyvm", :id,
      "--memory", "1024",
      "--cpus",   "4"
    ]
  end

  # Provisioner config
  config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
    chef.add_recipe 'apt'
    chef.add_recipe 'postgresql::client'
    chef.add_recipe 'postgresql::server'
    chef.add_recipe 'build-essential'
    chef.add_recipe 'rvm::system'
    chef.add_recipe 'git'
    chef.json = {
      :postgresql => {
        :version => '9.3'
      },
      "postgresql" => {
        "password" => {
          "postgres" => "kshgfi3ret3hihjfbkivtbo3ity835"
        }
      },
      "database" => {
        "create" => ["aisisplatform"]
      },
      :git   => {
        :prefix => "/usr/local"
      },
      :rvm => {
        'rubies' => [ 'ruby-2.1.0' ],
        'default_ruby' => 'ruby-2.1.0',
        'vagrant' => {
          :system_chef_solo => '/usr/bin/chef-solo'
        }
      },
    }
  end
end

Answer 1

You don't have vagrant user in postgres, and when you run psql, it tries to login as vagrant user (the same name as OS user). You may try something like:

psql -U postgres -h localhost

to login as postgres user, with password specified in your Vagrantfile for postgresq user.

Then, you have several options:

• Export PGUSER and PGHOST environment variables to set user and host (psql without parameters will use these values). You may also want to use .pgpass file to avoid entering password on each psql execute.

• Modify Vagrantfile to create vagrant user in postgres with password