Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:44:42 -0400
From: "Jignesh K. Shah" <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Remove Postgres from Solaris 10
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I guess what you mean is to remove the "role" postgres so that you can 
redefine it as a normal user and not remove the binaries that are 
installed with Postgres as they can be overridden by having right PATH 
variables

Its easy... Modify /etc/user_attr and remove type=role from the postgres 
line and modify /etc/passwd to set a home path and change default shell 
to /bin/sh or /bin/bash and set password for it.. and now you have a 
normal user..
Is this what you are trying to do?

-Jignesh


Thomas Bräutigam wrote:
> Hello all,
>  
> I have a software solution with a postgres database. The user postgres 
> is abolutly needed for my software.
>  
> With Solaris 10, Postgres is automatically installed and uses the user 
> postgres. How can I easily remove the current postgres install from 
> this Solaris 10? Is there a process which is provided from Solaris to 
> remove it? Whats the best way to do it?
>  
> Thank you for your help.
>  
> Cheers Thomas
> **