ALTER USER (Deprecated)

Alter existing user options.

Note: Deprecated. ALTER USER is supported for backwards compatibility only. Use ROLE for authentication and authorization.

Superusers can change a user's password, hashed password, or superuser status. To prevent disabling all superusers, superusers cannot change their own superuser status. Ordinary users can change only their own password or hashed password. Enclose the user name in single quotation marks if it contains non-alphanumeric characters. Enclose the password or hashed password in single quotation marks. See CREATE ROLE for more information about SUPERUSER and NOSUPERUSER.

Synopsis

ALTER USER user_name 
  ( WITH PASSWORD 'user_password' |
  WITH HASHED PASSWORD 'hashed_user_password' )
  [ ( SUPERUSER | NOSUPERUSER ) ] ;

Table 1. Legend
Syntax conventions	Description
UPPERCASE	Literal keyword.
Lowercase	Not literal.
`Italics`	Variable value. Replace with a user-defined value.
`[]`	Optional. Square brackets ( `[]` ) surround optional command arguments. Do not type the square brackets.
`( )`	Group. Parentheses ( `( )` ) identify a group to choose from. Do not type the parentheses.
`\|`	Or. A vertical bar ( `\|` ) separates alternative elements. Type any one of the elements. Do not type the vertical bar.
`...`	Repeatable. An ellipsis ( `...` ) indicates that you can repeat the syntax element as often as required.
`'Literal string'`	Single quotation ( `'` ) marks must surround literal strings in CQL statements. Use single quotation marks to preserve upper case.
`{ key : value }`	Map collection. Braces ( `{ }` ) enclose map collections or key value pairs. A colon separates the key and the value.
`<datatype1,datatype2>`	Set, list, map, or tuple. Angle brackets ( `< >` ) enclose data types in a set, list, map, or tuple. Separate the data types with a comma.
`cql_statement;`	End CQL statement. A semicolon ( `;` ) terminates all CQL statements.
`[--]`	Separate the command line options from the command arguments with two hyphens ( `--` ). This syntax is useful when arguments might be mistaken for command line options.
`' <schema> ... </schema> '`	Search CQL only: Single quotation marks ( `'` ) surround an entire XML schema declaration.
`@xml_entity='xml_entity_type'`	Search CQL only: Identify the entity and literal value to overwrite the XML element in the schema and solrConfig files.

Examples

Alter a user's password:

ALTER USER moss WITH PASSWORD 'bestReceiver';

Alter a user's hashed password:

ALTER USER moss WITH HASHED PASSWORD '$2a$10$xsAJKfU.ZUzcuM9REniQoO8jUzBx0B.ChEl5w86TFcOv5ZhARo/uq';

Alter a user to make them a superuser:

ALTER USER moss SUPERUSER;