Hi Martin, So I have deleted the postgres user : (sorry, french output ;) )
jon-debian:/# deluser postgres Suppression de l'utilisateur « postgres »... userdel : erreur lors de la suppression de l'entrée dans /etc/shadow Fait. jon-debian:/# It says that there is an error while deleting the user entry from /etc/shadow ... I don't know where this user came from, but it seems there's something special about it ... Now : jon-debian:/# id postgres uid=116(postgres) gid=116(postgres) groupes=116(postgres) jon-debian:/# So everythings looks Ok. I try to purge postgresql-7.4 packages and reinstall them, and it seems OK. Anyway, I think you can close this bug report now, since it was a problem on my side ... Thanks a lot, Jonathan Martin Pitt a écrit : > Hi Jonathan! > > Jonathan Ballet [2005-12-05 9:46 +0100]: > >>Sorry for late reply. Here is the output of 'id postgresql' : >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id postgres >>uid=12966(postgres) gid=0(root) groupes=0(root) >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ >> >>I hope it can help ... > > > It indeed does. It should actually look like > > uid=116(postgres) gid=116(postgres) Gruppen=116(postgres) > > i. e. there are several things wrong about your user: > > * The user ID should be smaller than 1000 to make postgres a system > user. > * postgres should have its own system group instead of being in > group 'root'. This is the cause for your failure. > > Since I do not believe that adduser --system created this user, I > strongly suspect that it existed before installing postgresql-common > already. It does not look like a regular user either, though - they > must not be in group 'root'. > > Thus, a quickfix for you would be to do > > deluser postgres > > and reinstall postgresql-common and postgresql-7.4. However, please > make double sure that you don't need that user for anything else. > > I can add a check to the postgresql-common package that will make the > installation fail with a meaningful message if an invalid postgres > user already exists. However, there is not much more I could do about > that. > > Thanks, > > Martin >
