Re: [ADMIN] FATAL 1: SetUserId:

From: Bernd Johannes Wuebben <wuebben(at)math(dot)cornell(dot)edu>
To: M(dot)Boekhold(at)et(dot)tudelft(dot)nl
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, Marcio Macedo <marciom(at)conectiva(dot)com(dot)br>
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] FATAL 1: SetUserId:
Date: 1998-08-13 18:24:49
Message-ID: XFMail.980813142449.wuebben@math.cornell.edu
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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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