[plug] DebNewbie Q?

[sol]

Looks like the same problem. Here's the log:

sol at debian:~$ su -
Password:
debian:~# su - postgres
postgres at debian:~$ createuser -P sol
Connection to database 'template1' failed.
ERROR:mdopen: couldn't open /var/lib/postgres/data/pg_shadow: Permission 
denied

(Is the above what you meant by capturing the command?) Permissions for 
this file are set to 600. This is all very strange.
Sol

Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, sol wrote:
> 
> 
>> Thanks Tony.
>> createuser was what I was looking for (I checked the man pages). But 
>> guess what? I just got the same error message:
>> 
>> Connection to database 'template1' failed.
>> ERROR: mdopen: couldn't open /var/lib/postgres/data/pg_shadow: 
>> Permission denied.
> 
> Hmmm Try,
> $ su -
> Password: blah blah blah
> # su - postgres (or what ever account debian created)
> $ createuser -P sol
> 
> Same problem ???
> 
> Also when you send small ammounts of output, it's prolly a good Idea to 
> capture the command:
> ---
> ~/tmp$ cat /etc/shadow
> cat: /etc/shadow: Permission denied
> ---
> 
> Something like that.
> 
> 
> Yours Tony.
> 
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