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

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Johnie Ingram wrote:
  >
  >"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.

The SQL command, CREATE USER, does allow it; I specifically disallowed it
in the createuser command in order to stop people running into the GRANT
bug.

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