Re: OT:postgres user to beging using PostgreSQL?

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

Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
  >Sorry for this off topic.
  >I just installed Postgresql on a Potato box. I am trying to create new users
      > 
  >but I get errors saying that the user I am using is not present in pg_shadow
      >. 
  >Docs say only user present there by default is user postgres. Should I be 
  >logged in with user postgres to be able to create users? How do I know it's 
  >password?
 
Yes, you have to be user postgres to create other users.

Become postgres thus:

$ su
# su - postgres

Or give it a password (su -c "passwd postgres") and login to it directly.

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