[postgresql] /bin/false?

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water · Post by **water** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:38 am

After emerging Postgresql, i tryed to start it with:

/etc/init.d/postgresql start

That didin't work and finally i found out that in /etc/passwd the shell from the user postgres was set to /bin/false. Changing it to /bin/bash solved my problem.

The question is why it is set to /bin/false by default and if changing it to /bin/bash is a good idea. (googling around suggests that it should have a real shell).

Akhouk · Post by **Akhouk** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 2:30 pm

I am not sure why your postgres user got setup as /bin/false. It should be /bin/bash and is setup as /bin/bash on all my Gentoo Postgresql installls. (About 8 Gentoo Postgres servers)

water · Post by **water** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 3:14 pm

I guess the the creation of the user is done by the ebuild? I will take a look into tehe ebuild.

I've searched the internet and found one similar case, but no solution or wathever.

i'm not really sure, bu maybe i have emerged Postgresql using sudo. Could that make sense?

tomk · Post by **tomk** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 6:49 pm

Not sure how you got /bin/false in /etc/passwd, whether you used sudo or not shouldn't affect it, but the is an info message in the ebuild:

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einfo "Make sure the postgres user in /etc/passwd has an account setup with /bin/bash as the shell"

myuser · Post by **myuser** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:42 pm

I installed PostgreSQL quite recently on one machine and I had to patch it to set up the user, and /var directory. Someone has a patch script associated with gentoo, google is your friend.