database and password set correctly, but the issue was with databse authentication, in the file /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
The install of postgress had authentication set to "ident" I changed them to "md5"
I verified from command line I could connect with the password after the change and "mailman info" now works. psql --host=localhost --dbname=mailman --username=mailman -W
************** contents of pg_hba.conf ****************************** ********************* What I changed it to **************** # TYPE DATABASE USER ADDRESS METHOD
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only local all all md5 # IPv4 local connections: host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5 # IPv6 local connections: host all all ::1/128 md5 # Allow replication connections from localhost, by a user with the # replication privilege. #local replication postgres peer #host replication postgres 127.0.0.1/32 ident #host replication postgres ::1/128 ident
********************* What it was from install ***************
# TYPE DATABASE USER ADDRESS METHOD
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only local all all peer # IPv4 local connections: host all all 127.0.0.1/32 ident # IPv6 local connections: host all all ::1/128 ident # Allow replication connections from localhost, by a user with the # replication privilege. #local replication postgres peer #host replication postgres 127.0.0.1/32 ident #host replication postgres ::1/128 ident