Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:48:14 -0500
From: Robert Lor <Robert.Lor@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Remove Postgres from Solaris 10
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To: "Jignesh K. Shah" <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM>
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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
>> **