RHV: Authentication failure when performing engine-backup of ovirt_engine_history database.
Issue
- The following error is reported when trying to perform engine-backup
2017-11-13 23:00:04 6044: pg_cmd running: pg_dump -w -U ovirt_engine_history -h localhost -p 5432 ovirt_engine_history -E UTF8 --disable-dollar-quoting --disable-triggers --format=custom
pg_dump: [archiver (db)] connection to database "ovirt_engine_history" failed: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "ovirt_engine_history"
password retrieved from file "/tmp/engine-backup.JbwdCGFYBz/.pgpass"
2017-11-13 23:00:04 6044: FATAL: Database ovirt_engine_history backup failed
2017-11-13 23:00:04 6044: OUTPUT: Notifying engine
Environment
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.1.x
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