Re: Trouble installing Drupal 5 using sockets (a little long)

Bryan wrote:
> I am trying to get my little ALIX server that is running OpenBSD
> 4.4-current to run pgsql.  I've been successful in installing 8.3.3,
> and since OpenBSD uses a chrooted environment, I intend on using unix
> sockets for making database connections.  I read the man pages, ran
> "initdb -D /var/postgresql/data -U postgres -A md5 -W" and edited the
> /var/postgresql/data/postgresql.conf file to read:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> In postgresql, assuming an `admin' account has all rights:
>
> createuser -U admin --pwprompt --no-superuser --createdb --no-createrole drupal
> createdb -U drupal -E UTF8 drupal
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> When I type the following:
>
> # createuser -U admin --pwprompt --no-superuser --createdb
> --no-createrole drupal


You are running createuser under your "root" account and root is not a
priviledged user of pgsql under OpenBSD.

1) login as the pgsql "admin" user (I think it's _postgresql; I changed
it on my system).  this was created for you if you used OpenBSD package
to install pgsql.
    # su - _postgresql
2) Issue the createuser and createdb commands from that account.