Re: 1.7.7: Postgresql 8.2: no postgres user

On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 05:20:16PM -0500, Gerry Reno wrote: > I installed PostgreSQL 8.2. > So should there have been a 'postgres' user created by the installation? No. > If not, what are the procedures to setting up PostgreSQL with a server > process user and then running it as a service? Try t

1.7.7: Postgresql 8.2: no postgres user

I installed PostgreSQL 8.2. I want to run PostgreSQL as a service. Usually I would expect that the user 'postgres' was created by the package installation. However, after installing PostgreSQL 8.2 in Cygwin I find no user 'postgres' on the system: bash-4.1$ grep postgres /etc/passwd bas