Re: Juvenile BASH question

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On Mon, 21 Oct 2013, Mark Haney wrote:


This may sound like a rather juvenile BASH question, but I'm rather stumped and hope it's something simple to fix.  I hope someone has the answer since I
don't really have time (swapping out firewalls and half my network is down) to research it. 

 

I have a BASH script that is pretty simple, it backs up postgresQL databases using pg_dump.  It runs as root since I am copying data to a SAN and don't
really want to configure the postgres user to have access to it.  But, in order to get everything dumped properly, I do this:

 

su postgres - -c <pgdump command>

 

Now, this has worked perfectly for 3 months now, but the last few days I started getting errors about failed authentication to the databases.  Here's
where it gets weird.  I can su postgres - from a BASH prompt just fine,but when I run the script, it asks me for a password, which it didn't do before. 
IIRC, I had to change the postgres user from /bin/false to /bin/bash for one of our software devs to be able to monitor the DBs via Jenkins, could that
have something to do with it?  I can't imagine how, since I can su from the root prompt to the postgres user without asking for a password. 

 

Help!


Is it asking for root password or postgres password?

billo
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