Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
>Sorry for this off topic.
>I just installed Postgresql on a Potato box. I am trying to create new users
>
>but I get errors saying that the user I am using is not present in pg_shadow
>.
>Docs say only user present there by default is user postgres. Should I be
>logged in with user postgres to be able to create users? How do I know it's
>password?
Yes, you have to be user postgres to create other users.
Become postgres thus:
$ su
# su - postgres
Or give it a password (su -c "passwd postgres") and login to it directly.
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