Cant create new users or databases

From: AlphaByte <alan(at)alphabyte(dot)co(dot)nz>
To: pgsql list - general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Cant create new users or databases
Date: 2000-09-16 11:49:49
Message-ID: 00091623522700.01946@alphabyte.co.nz
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Can someone point out to me what I am doing wrong here? I
can't seem to find this in the documentation anywhere.

[root(at)alphabyte abyte]# createuser abyte
Shall the new user be allowed to create databases? (y/n) y
Shall the new user be allowed to create more new users? (y/n) y
NOTICE: mdopen: couldn't open /var/lib/pgsql/pg_shadow: Permission denied
NOTICE: RelationIdBuildRelation: smgropen(pg_shadow): Permission denied
NOTICE: mdopen: couldn't open /var/lib/pgsql/pg_shadow: Permission denied
NOTICE: mdopen: couldn't open /var/lib/pgsql/pg_shadow: Permission denied
psql: FATAL 1: cannot open relation pg_shadow
createuser: creation of user "abyte" failed

Ta

Alan
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