Re: "1-Click" installer problems - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Craig Ringer
Subject Re: "1-Click" installer problems
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Msg-id 4BB5ABA2.3010500@postnewspapers.com.au
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In response to Re: "1-Click" installer problems  (John Gage <jsmgage@numericable.fr>)
List pgsql-general
On 2/04/2010 3:42 PM, John Gage wrote:
> If I do cat /etc/passwd, I get the following, which does not include
> 'postgres'. Yet id knows about 'postgres'. And 'postgres' owns the data.

Try:

     sudo dscl localhost -list NetInfo/Users

Apple don't use the usual UNIX utilities, they've got their own user
database. It's based on LDAP (as of 10.??'s OpenDirectory) and before
that was a more NIS-like service.

See dscl, netinfo, opendirectory documentation for more info.

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Craig Ringer

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