Re: starting the databaseserver - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Florian Helmberger
Subject Re: starting the databaseserver
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Msg-id OPEOLKEAAIMGBAMJNACKIEHOEKAA.f.helmberger@uptime.at
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In response to starting the databaseserver  (WolfgangMeiners@t-online.de (Wolfgang Meiners))
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Hi Wolfgang,

> It seems, the user postgres (group daemons) has been added by the
> installation-procedure -at least not by me. Nevertheless, when i
> try to login
> to this user, it fails because i do not have a password! So i can
> not take
> the very fist step!
>
> So my question simply is: How do I login to the user postgres?

Switchuser to root (su - root) and then change either the password or switch
to user postgres (su - postgres) - as you do this as root, you don't have to
log in.

Florian




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