From: | Thomas Guyot <tguyot(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Matthias Apitz <guru(at)unixarea(dot)de>, Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: How do the Linux distributions create the Linux user/group "postgres"? |
Date: | 2023-01-09 13:11:20 |
Message-ID: | 46fe0e83-a7fc-06d6-b376-84ec38ec437e@gmail.com |
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On 2023-01-09 07:41, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please note: I'm talking about the user and group "postgres" in the
> Linux OS and not in the PostgreSQL server.
>
> We're compiling PostgreSQL from source (actually 14.1) and distribute that
> to our customers. They're asked to setup user and group "postgres"
> before creating the cluster. As nowadays there are a lot of setup such
> things in bigger installations, like LDAP or AD, etc. I'd like to know
> how other installations for Linux deal with this?
Hi Matthias,
Users are generally created by the pre-install or post-install scripts
of the package. The specific ways in which they are created may depend
on the packaging tool being used and packager that built the
distribution package.
Regards,
--
Thomas
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