> I suspect you are expecting that the map will cause root to be > logged in as postgres without asking for that. It won't. > What it will do is allow "psql -U postgres" and similar to work. That's exactly what I am looking to do. In my case I have a script that runs as root. I want to log in as postgres user from that script but the script is running as root. The way I have it set up doesn't permit that. I want to know what I need to do in order to make that happen. > > BTW, one has to wonder why you are using the root account for this > work in the first place. Wouldn't it be a lot more secure to use > a less privileged account (oh, I don't know, maybe postgres)? > This script is a part of the initial setup script for the server. It has to run as root because when it starts running postgres is not installed and there is no postgres user. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
