Re: Where does 'www-data' come from?

[Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>]

"Eduardo" == Eduardo Marcel Macan <macan@debian.org> writes:

Eduardo> 	See, I am not suggesting that we change the username
Eduardo> to solve the postgres problem, this would solve this problem,
Eduardo> but not THE problem with postgres. I am just wondering why it
Eduardo> is not called just 'www'.

I still say its a nasty Bug in postgresql createuser.  If you create a
"wwwdata" user and then rename the user manually in pg_shadow, it
works fine.  At the very least createuser could have an
--allow-badname option like adduser.

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