If I understand your description of the problem sufficiently, I believe you're
running into trouble at the "su postres" step.
Although I'm quite new to postgres, I do know that creating a user account
named "postgres" is recommended, if not required, by the installation process.
Entering "su postgres" on the cmd-line switches the user (su) in that shell to
username: postgres -- it's not invoking a program, per se. Then logging in,
even via su, requires password authentication.
Hope this helps - Scott
On Oct 9, 2004, at 7:29 AM, wayne schlemitz wrote:
I am using SuSE 8.0 Professional Linux and installing postresql 7.4 by placing the tar files in /temp and untar and unzip and followed the short install procedure. Log in as root ./ configure gmake gmake install useradd mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data su postgres /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data ""same as above"" >logfile 2>&1 &
At this point I checked the last 2 lines to enter and was told I do not have the password for the postges sence it is not a person but a program it should not ask for the password. Have not had sucess to call up the program or to finish the last 2 lines. /usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pgsql test
What can I do to finish the last 2 lines and call up the potgres or pgsql?
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