Re: Creation of postgres user to cygwin.

Mika,

[The following is probably too little, too late...]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 06:48:05PM +0200, mika(dot)laitio(at)sysline(dot)com wrote:
> I tried to install postgreSQL to service as mentioned in the
> postgresql-7.2.README document.

Did you really read the above carefully? Specifically:

[2] The "$" prompt indicates running as the "postgres" user. Log in
as "postgres" or use ssh to emulate Unix's "su" command.

> When I try to login to postgreSQL as a postgres-user I am however getting
> following error:
>
> login: postgres
> Password:
> Fanfare!!!
> You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
> login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied

See the following for the cause of the above:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-03/msg00291.html

This is what I suspected but now it has been confirmed.

HTH,
Jason