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List:       postgresql-admin
Subject:    Re: [ADMIN] FATAL 1: SetUserId:
From:       Bernd Johannes Wuebben <wuebben () math ! cornell ! edu>
Date:       1998-08-13 18:24:49
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Seems to me that all this security nonsense has come to a point where
posgres is 100% safe but also 100% unusable ;-). 

Bernd

On 13-Aug-98 Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Marcio Macedo wrote:
> 
>> You can also try this
>> As root:
>>      su - postgres
>>      createuser user_name
>> this will probably allow your user to create and use databases.
> 
> Not is postgresql is configured to use password authentication. If it
> is 
> configured to do so it couldn't care less which UNIX user you are.
> 
> Maarten
> 
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Bernd Johannes Wuebben                          wuebben@kde.org
wuebben@math.cornell.edu                        wuebben@acm.org
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