Re: Installing Postgres without the postgres user and group on Linux? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Plugge, Joe R.
Subject Re: Installing Postgres without the postgres user and group on Linux?
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Msg-id BD69807DAE0CE44CA00A8338D0FDD083034C920C48@oma00cexmbx03.corp.westworlds.com
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In response to Re: Installing Postgres without the postgres user and group on Linux?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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You are correct, it is because I ran initdb as user postgres .... I am following you now .. .thanks for the
clarification.


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 11:04 AM
To: Plugge, Joe R.
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Installing Postgres without the postgres user and group on Linux?

"Plugge, Joe R." <JRPlugge@west.com> writes:
> Understood, but I thought that the install routine (in this case compiled from source on RHEL 6) will create the
localuser and group named postgres and chown the config and data dirs to that .... 

The unmodified Postgres sources will certainly do no such thing.

            regards, tom lane


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