Re: [ADMIN] apt installation postgresql 8.3

2012-01-17 Thread Kevin Grittner
Walter Hurry wrote: > User postgres does *not* need to log in to Unix/Linux directly, > and therefore should *not* be assigned a password. I totally agree. In fact, for most use-cases, you don't need or want the users of the database to be able to log on to the box with the database. Let the

Re: [ADMIN] apt installation postgresql 8.3

2012-01-17 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:24:41 +0300, David M. Gullever wrote: > Question - user postgres > > If the admin is creating various "postgresql" users to work on different > databases - is it advisable to create these as "LINUX" users so that > they have a home directory for saving their scripts - and w