Abyway installing postgres from either ports or packages don't ask you for a password. pgsql is a pseudo user used to run the daemon within that user. Take a note about that "service postgresql initdb" message. Always run the postgres administrative commands under that fake pgsql user (via sudo for example).
El 3 de febrero de 2016 19:25:41 CET, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> escribió:
On 2016-02-03 12:22, Tom Lane wrote:
Dimitri <dimitri@shackletonpacific.com> writes:
I am attempting a fresh install of postgresql9.5 on FreeBSD
I am at the point of initialising the database server. When I issue
the
initdb command (see below) I am requested to enter a password. Which
password am I meant to insert here?
When I cat /etc/passwd I notice there is a user pgsql ( a pseudo user)
which I never created so I dont know what the password is for pgsql.
I have tried using the root password, my user's password, and a user I
created (postgres) but all to no avail.
Can anyone help me along?
I'm mostly guessing here, since I do not
know how the FreeBSD package
you're using is set up; but it's fairly common for PG packages to
create
a "postgres" or "pgsql" daemon user without setting any password for
it.
That means you can't log in as that user. Rather, you're supposed to
do
something like "sudo su - pgsql" to become that user, and then you can
do tasks like running initdb as that user.
Alternatively, you can use your root powers to assign a password for
that
user, if you prefer that way. But keep in mind that that user is
mainly
meant for running the PG server, not for manual tasks.
I'd sort of expect the package to include some documentation around
this
point ...
regards, tom lane
oh, and:
service postgresql initdb
will do the init.
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