Re: Installing Postgres without the postgres user and group on Linux?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Plugge, Joe R(dot)" <JRPlugge(at)west(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Installing Postgres without the postgres user and group on Linux?
Date: 2013-01-23 17:03:44
Message-ID: 21427.1358960624@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Plugge, Joe R." <JRPlugge(at)west(dot)com> writes:
> Understood, but I thought that the install routine (in this case compiled from source on RHEL 6) will create the local user and group named postgres and chown the config and data dirs to that ....

The unmodified Postgres sources will certainly do no such thing.

regards, tom lane

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