On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:51:33PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > > adduser is neither essential nor required, thus does not need to be > > installed when installing postgres. I'm not quite sure what you mean, > > could you please explain this? > > > > Thanks in advance! > > Hum, instead of adduser, useradd should be used by the posgresql > package. > useradd is included in the package passwd, which is "required" package > from the "base" section.
No, packages that need to add users or groups should use adduser so that the appropriate uid and gid ranges are used as configured by the sysadmin. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
