Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ty3jq-0006Wu-6W for pgsql-admin@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:03:50 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ty3jo-0002FA-Vu for pgsql-admin@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:03:49 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([87.238.57.229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ty3jo-0002F4-1i for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:03:48 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ty3jl-0000Io-LB for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:03:47 +0000 Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r0NH3iu1021428; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:03:44 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Lane To: "Plugge, Joe R." cc: "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org" Subject: Re: Installing Postgres without the postgres user and group on Linux? In-reply-to: References: <20631.1358958516@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to "Plugge, Joe R." message dated "Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:33:34 -0600" Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:03:44 -0500 Message-ID: <21427.1358960624@sss.pgh.pa.us> X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-admin Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org "Plugge, Joe R." writes: > Understood, but I thought that the install routine (in this case compiled from source on RHEL 6) will create the local user and group named postgres and chown the config and data dirs to that .... The unmodified Postgres sources will certainly do no such thing. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin