Re: Where does 'www-data' come from?
Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote:
> We seem to have a ever-standing bug against postgresql saying we
>cannot have a user called www-data accessing databases (postgresql
>complains about the '-' in the name, it looks like it is not a valid char
>for postgresql usernames at all).
It is possible to have a user whose name contains a hyphen, so long as you
double-quote the user name in any SQL statement. The bug is that, even
if the username is quoted, GRANT does not recognise it, which causes
problems when allowing web-access to tables:
junk=> grant select on shares to "www-data";
ERROR: aclparse: mode flags must use "arwR"
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