Thread: Postgresql service account issue!?

<br /><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Hi,</font><br /><br /><font face="sans-serif" size="2">I have an issue regarding
thePostgreSQL service account on my machine. I work for IBM and I have to fulfil security checks for my machine to make
sureits safe. Anyway, it is flagging up the problem that my account for postgres doesnt have a screensaver set with a
password??Any ideas on what is causing this and how this can be resolved?? Is it possible to set a screensaver password
fora postgres service account?? Any help will be greatly appreciated.</font><br /><br /><font face="sans-serif"
size="2">Thanksin advance</font><br /><br /><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Tom</font><font face="sans-serif"
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Thomas Foster wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:OF83BE7F07.CCDFBDF7-ON80257331.00464DFB-80257331.00474CD2@uk.ibm.com"
type="cite"><fontface="sans-serif" size="2">I have an issue regarding the PostgreSQL service account on my machine. I
workfor IBM and I have to fulfil security checks for my machine to make sure its safe. Anyway, it is flagging up the
problemthat my account for postgres doesnt have a screensaver set with a password?? Any ideas on what is causing this
andhow this can be resolved?? Is it possible to set a screensaver password for a postgres service account?? Any help
willbe greatly appreciated.</font><br /></blockquote> If you never log in as postgres from a GUI, then it doesn't
matter.The security checker should realize that the account is not a user account.<br /><br /> On my system<br
/><blockquote>$grep postgres /etc/passwd<br /> postgres:x:26:26:PostgreSQL Server:/var/lib/pgsql:/bin/bash<br /><br />
$grep postgres /etc/shadow<br /> postgres:!!:13665:0:99999:7:::<br /><br /></blockquote> It is not possible to login as
postgresdirectly.<br /><br /> Cheers,<br /> mark<br /><br /><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
 
Mark Mielke <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mark@mielke.cc"><mark@mielke.cc></a>
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