[Gss-users] A question of nobody

[Bruce D. Meyer]

Hi Marcel,

When logging in as the user postgres to create "root" and "nobody", you may
have to type "bin/createuser" rather than just the createuser command,
particularly if you built PostgreSQL from scratch.  The default RedHat
install (and others, of course) put the PostgreSQL bin directory into the
"postgres" user's PATH variable (set in the .bash_profile).

Since initially, the /usrlocal/postgres supdir had root permission, when the
user postgres was greated, there is no .bash_profile, but I will put one
there.

I did understood from your docs that I needed to enter bin/createuser and di
so with no problem. I was referring to a perl script of your that fails when
I reinstall. It tries apparently to create those two users on it's onw (and
prompt me for the correct responses) but it fails as IT isn't issiuing the
bin/creaturer, rather just createuser. I assume it works when it can find
the file in it's path. I can easily modify root .profile to see the file,
but felt you may want to bug reports from people doing installs on virgin
systems. (I'm a bastille-linux beta tester and am resintalling linux
frequently to test the scripts on new installs)

I will either try it with the path in root .profile, or edit the perl script
to find the file via bin/create user.

Thanx for the clarification m'sieur!

Bruce



That may be the root of your problem (get it, root of problem -- sorry, it's
late).

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