From: Nicolas BALDECK <nicolas.baldeck@vizille.net>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: "root" execution not permitted. and busybox
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:44:30 +0100
Message-ID: <4D13FAFE.1070508@vizille.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=R5dTEQiv7mi6B8+0ave7HGtVMcsPKY1iSSW0B@mail.gmail.com>
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I'm working on an embedded system, and the bundled busybox doesn't
include useradd nor adduser. So I thought that it was faster to create
the user that way instead of setting a toolchain and recompiling busybox...
Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
>> nbald <nicolas.baldeck@vizille.net> writes:
>>
>>> this is driving me crazy... Do someone have an idea ?
>>>
>>> # echo 'pgsql:pgsql:100:100:pgsql:/home/pgsql:/bin/sh' >> /etc/passwd
>>>
>> That might have been the only way to create a Unix user account back
>> around 1972, but it hardly seems like the recommended way now. Doesn't
>> your distro provide a tool for that?
>>
>
> Every distro I've used in the last 5 or 10 years has either adduser or
> useradd and usermod for this kind of stuff.
>
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