> On 09/01/2023 13:41 CET Matthias Apitz <g...@unixarea.de> wrote: > > Hello, > > Please note: I'm talking about the user and group "postgres" in the > Linux OS and not in the PostgreSQL server. > > We're compiling PostgreSQL from source (actually 14.1) and distribute that > to our customers. They're asked to setup user and group "postgres" > before creating the cluster. As nowadays there are a lot of setup such > things in bigger installations, like LDAP or AD, etc. I'd like to know > how other installations for Linux deal with this?
Arch Linux uses sysusers.d[1] to create user postgres[2][3]. [1] https://man.archlinux.org/man/sysusers.d.5 [2] https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/postgresql/trunk/PKGBUILD#L204 [3] https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/postgresql/trunk/postgresql.sysusers -- Erik
