Re: Postgres user

varsha_agarwal(at)hotmail(dot)com ("Varsha Agarwal") wrote in
news:F142vO0zND3oV4AS24O0001adcc(at)hotmail(dot)com:

> Hi,
> I have just installed postgresql on red hat. To use psql command i
> have to do
> su postgres.
> But i can only do su postgres when I log on as root. When I logon as
> other user and do su postgres, it asks for password and i dont know
> what that is. Is it always to be run as root only or I can run it as
> normal user? -Varsha
>
>
>

After you su to postgres you should create a postgres user with the
createuser command. The user you create should be an existing system user
that you want to authorize to use postgres commands.

Mark

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