the distro i'm using is suse 10.0
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 10:32, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> crdandridge1@comcast.net wrote:
> > silly me! i was trying "adduser" when the command i needed to use was
> > "useradd"....boy do i feel stupid....now i'm at the part where i do "su -
> > postgres" and its asking me for a password but i don't remember ever
> > setting up one...any ideas?
>
> Check your distro's documentation about useradd. There probably is no
> password set for the account.
>
> Check to see if postgres has a shell set up in /etc/passwd. If there
> is, you can "su - postgres" as root or "sudo su - postgres" as a
> nonroot user with sufficient sudo privileges. If there is no shell for
> the account, use chsh to set one before trying to switch users.
>
> Also, linux's current stable release is 2.6.15.4. While "linux 10.0"
> does reduce the number of possible distributions, you would be more
> likely to get help relating to the distro you're using if you say which
> one it is.