Re: Installation question

On 11 Mar 2003, Charles Hauser wrote:

> Is it advisable/required to:
> - create a 'postgres' user account which owns /data
> - and then create user 'chauser' as owner of a specific DB?

My understanding is that postgresql installs expecting a user 'postgres'
as its admin. What I've done in the past is install postgresql then, as
root, use adduser/useradd to create the 'postgres' user account.

Once I have postgres living here I 'su postgres' (from my username
account), start postgresql (with psql), then issue the command, 'createuser
<username> -c -u'. This creates my username as a superuser able to create
new databases and new users. Then I usually forget the password for the
'postgres' user because I do all the admin tasks as me. :-)

Make sense?

HTH,

Rich

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