From: Robert Lor <Robert.Lor@Sun.COM>
To: Jignesh K. Shah <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM>
Cc: Thomas Bräutigam <thomas.braeutigam@nexustelecom.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Remove Postgres from Solaris 10
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:48:14 -0500
Message-ID: <4817898E.9070701@sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48168B9A.8060704@sun.com>
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<48168B9A.8060704@sun.com>
There are a couple of options you can take to accomplish this.
1) Remove the role by running ¨roledel postgres¨ . This will remove
postgres from /etc/passwd and /etc/user_attr, and you can use useradd to
add postgres as a user.
2) Modify ¨postgres¨ from being a role to user. Below are the steps I use:
a) run ¨passwd -d postgres¨
b) edit /etc/user_attr and change type for ¨postgres¨ from ¨role¨
to ¨user¨
c) create a home dir for postgres if needed
d) use the usermod command to change the home dir and shell
-Robert
Jignesh K. Shah wrote:
> 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
>> **
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