Re: Trouble installing psycopg2 - Mailing list pgsql-general

You're right, I installed the virtualenv as user root into /root.  

The reason for this is that I can't run 'yum' and probably many of the other commands from joshmoe, so I gave up on that route.  But I'm open for suggestions...do you think it would be better to try to get access to these commands? 

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com> wrote:

On 09/29/2013 09:38 AM, Augori wrote:

Thanks to Adrian for pointing to this site.
http://toomuchdata.com/2012/06/25/how-to-install-python-2-7-3-on-centos-6-2/
  I was able to get the virtual environment set up and install psycopg2
from there.  Now things seem to be working well when I'm logged in as root.

But I need to be able to use the virtualenv as a non-root user, joshmoe.
  (And start/stop postgresql as this other user)

I've found a good many examples of sudoer statements.  But I can't
figure out the syntax that will make this work.  I'm hoping once I get
this one, I'll be able to give access to statements like 'service
postgresql status' and so forth.

Looks to me you installed the virtualenv as user root into /root. Why not install the virtualenv as joshme into /joshme? Then you avoid the sudo problems all together. It also one of the benefits of virtualenv you can run programs as an ordinary user and not make them system wide.


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