* Doc bug: Postgres account not available
@ 2020-05-23 14:47 Pierre Neidhardt
2020-06-08 5:40 ` Gábor Boskovits
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From: Pierre Neidhardt @ 2020-05-23 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-guix
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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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* Re: Doc bug: Postgres account not available
2020-05-23 14:47 Doc bug: Postgres account not available Pierre Neidhardt
@ 2020-06-08 5:40 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-06-10 9:32 ` Pierre Neidhardt
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Gábor Boskovits @ 2020-06-08 5:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Pierre Neidhardt; +Cc: help-guix
Hello Pierre,
This has been this way for a while. It took me some time to find it
out also. I guess that documenting it would be fine.
Most of the times I finally end up adding a shell to the account, but
keeping it this way is a sane default when you automanage your
database.
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. máj.
23., Szo, 16:47):
>
> 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?
>
> --
> Pierre Neidhardt
> https://ambrevar.xyz/
Best regards,
g_bor
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