Yep, the first thing you should be taught when administering a Unix box is
to do as root only those things that HAVE to be done as root and then go
back to a non priveldged account. The first time you accidentally do
something like 'rm -Rf /* html' as root when you meant 'rm -Rf /*html'
you find out why.
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> Very simple, don't use root. Create a user postgres and run the database
> server as that. Then you can let the user "root" login although that's an
> exceedingly bad idea.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:54:36PM -0800, DangVan Chinh wrote:
> >
> > I don't know starting a PostgreSQL server on RedHat Linux 8.0 and to create a simple database.
> > I have seen:
> > - "$ postmaster" -> error: "root exection of PostgreSQL server is not permitted...."
> > -"$ createdb mydb" -> error: "user 'root' does not exist. createdb: database createtion failed"
> > (I login with user is "root")
> > So, help me way to create a database!
> > Thanks!
