Thank you very very much Vladimir, I was just starting to port my db to mysql. You saved me and our project :) > Also, check /etc/passwd permissions, it should be something like -rw-r--r-- My permissions of /etc/passwd was set to -rw------- I changed it to -rw-r--r-- and initdb works now smoothly :) best regards, Haluk -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin