Re: [ADMIN] FATAL 1: SetUserId: - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bernd Johannes Wuebben
Subject Re: [ADMIN] FATAL 1: SetUserId:
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Msg-id XFMail.980813142449.wuebben@math.cornell.edu
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In response to Re: [ADMIN] FATAL 1: SetUserId:  (Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl>)
Responses Re: [ADMIN] FATAL 1: SetUserId:  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Seems to me that all this security nonsense has come to a point where
posgres is 100% safe but also 100% unusable ;-).

Bernd

On 13-Aug-98 Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Marcio Macedo wrote:
>
>> You can also try this
>> As root:
>>      su - postgres
>>      createuser user_name
>> this will probably allow your user to create and use databases.
>
> Not is postgresql is configured to use password authentication. If it
> is
> configured to do so it couldn't care less which UNIX user you are.
>
> Maarten
>
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