Re: Installation question

From: Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>
To: Charles Hauser <chauser(at)duke(dot)edu>
Cc: Hadley Willan <hadley(dot)willan(at)deeperdesign(dot)co(dot)nz>, Postgresql General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Installation question
Date: 2003-03-10 22:31:11
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0303101430160.15546-100000@appl-ecosys.com
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On 10 Mar 2003, Charles Hauser wrote:

> As suggested by Andrew, adduser was not in the path I was in.

> If I understand, you are saying that by running 'adduser postgres' then
> I would be running as root - bad form, and that I am better off using
> creatdb.

Don't you want to use createuser instead?

Rich

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