Re: starting the databaseserver

From: "Florian Helmberger" <f(dot)helmberger(at)uptime(dot)at>
To: "Wolfgang Meiners" <WolfgangMeiners(at)t-online(dot)de>, <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: starting the databaseserver
Date: 2002-07-04 13:12:31
Message-ID: OPEOLKEAAIMGBAMJNACKIEHOEKAA.f.helmberger@uptime.at
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Hi Wolfgang,

> It seems, the user postgres (group daemons) has been added by the
> installation-procedure -at least not by me. Nevertheless, when i
> try to login
> to this user, it fails because i do not have a password! So i can
> not take
> the very fist step!
>
> So my question simply is: How do I login to the user postgres?

Switchuser to root (su - root) and then change either the password or switch
to user postgres (su - postgres) - as you do this as root, you don't have to
log in.

Florian

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