From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Doc bug: Postgres account not available
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 16:47:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8qeiu8f.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (raw)
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Hi!
Apparently our Postgres service changed a little bit recently. While it
was easy to setup in the past, this week it cost me a few hours, trying
to figure out how to do a simple thing like
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ psql -U postgres
psql: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "postgres"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Eventually, I discovered https://issues.guix.info/38198.
Turns out the authentication policy is now "peer" and the shell-less
'postgres' user cannot be used without a shell.
As such, to administrate PostgresQL we need first to switch to the
postgres user as follows:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
sudo su postgres -s psql
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
This was not a very obvious find on the Internet.
Can we make this easier? The above thread suggests to leave the setup
as is and to document it.
Thoughts? Gábor, Giovanni?
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Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/
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2020-05-23 14:47 Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
2020-06-08 5:40 ` Doc bug: Postgres account not available Gábor Boskovits
2020-06-10 9:32 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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