On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> nbald <nicolas(dot)baldeck(at)vizille(dot)net> writes:
>> this is driving me crazy... Do someone have an idea ?
>
>> # echo 'pgsql:pgsql:100:100:pgsql:/home/pgsql:/bin/sh' >> /etc/passwd
>
> That might have been the only way to create a Unix user account back
> around 1972, but it hardly seems like the recommended way now. Doesn't
> your distro provide a tool for that?
Every distro I've used in the last 5 or 10 years has either adduser or
useradd and usermod for this kind of stuff.