Re: Error on createuser

From: tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de
To: vinayak Desai <vinayak(dot)mdesai(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Error on createuser
Date: 2006-06-22 10:24:31
Message-ID: 20060622102431.GA1684@www.trapp.net
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On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 07:38:13PM +0530, vinayak Desai wrote:
> [root(at)localhost ~]# createuser -a -d -e antonio
> createuser: could not connect to database template1: FATAL: user "root"
> does not exist

This is not a bug. It's just that root is not a known database user.
Typically there is an user postgres with full admin rights, so as root,
do

su - postgres

and then try crateuser, etc.

HTH
-- toms

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