On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > nbald <nicolas.baldeck@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin