Re: Error on createuser - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Klaus Ita
Subject Re: Error on createuser
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Msg-id 20060622062306.GK26915@aipc54.ai.wu-wien.ac.at
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In response to Error on createuser  ("vinayak Desai" <vinayak.mdesai@gmail.com>)
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On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 07:38:13PM +0530, vinayak Desai wrote:
> [root@localhost ~]# createuser -a -d -e antonio
> createuser: could not connect to database template1: FATAL:  user "root"
> does not exist
> [root@localhost ~]#
>
> i logged in as root..
> I tried to create a new user i am getting this error message...
> Kindly look in to this matter.
>

root is not automatically permitted to do so. you might want to read up the
permission part of the manual. try as the user owning the cluster (on my
system that is postmaster)

su postmaster -- createuser ....


regs,
klaus

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