There is a CLI option where? Forgive my ignorance, please. Does it
appear in the one-click installer?
John
On Apr 2, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Sachin Srivastava wrote:
There is a CLI option --serviceaccount <username> which a user can
use to make any user the owner of postgres service and data files.
Also, if you choose 'postgres' as the service account and the
'postgres' user doesn't exist. The installer will create postgres as
a 'locked' user account. Thats the reason you dont see 'postgres'
listed as any other normal user. These steps were taken to enhance
the security of the data folder.
Again, anytime a user is free to use any account as the service
account and not use 'postgres'.
On 4/2/10 12:37 PM, John Gage wrote:
Then I don't understand why the installer doesn't do the same thing.
Or, in the alternative, why it doesn't ask you what you want these
parameters to be.
I would say that, typically, someone installing postgres does it,
conceivably, as root or, more likely, as a user.
What he or she doesn't do is install it as user 'postgres'.
Yet, that is what the one-click installer does. I do not believe
that this is intuitive. What is more, gratuitiously adding a user
to the system doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.
In addition, all other one-click installations on the Mac either
don't ask for root privileges, because they don't need them, or ask
for them, but still install under the current user. Some
installations will even ask whether you want the application usable
by all users of the machine or just you.
But none, repeat none, create a new user.
What is more, through standard unix commands such as "who" or "cat /
etc/passwd", I cannot find the user 'postgres' on my machine...even
though he is the owner of the Postgres data files...on my machine.
There's the rub. 'postgres' owns files...my files...on my machine,
yet he is not on my machine. Not good.
I should add that I am an accolyte of Postgres and am only raising
this (possible) issue in the most positive spirit I am capable of.
In addition, I think that the people on this list are superb, and
the responses are unbelievably helpful and accurate.
John
On Apr 2, 2010, at 8:29 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
John Gage wrote:
The 8.4.2 documentation says:
"The default user name is your Unix user name, as is the default
database name."
when you as a user connect to the database server the commands
like psql, pg_dump, etc all use your unix username as the default
for the database username, and your username as teh default for
the database name, unless you specify a different user and/or
database on hte command line.
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Regards,
Sachin Srivastava
EnterpriseDB, the Enterprise Postgres company.
