Bug 9829 – passwd problem with postgresql-7.2.3-r1

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 10367
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Martin Vollrathson 2002-10-28 07:42:31 UTC]

postgresql-7.2.3-r1 has a new init-script. This init-script uses su -c, which
causes pg_ctl to be started through the user postgres' shell. By default, the
shell for the user postgres is /bin/false if postgresql had been installed
before. Thus, /etc/init.d/postgresql start fails if you do not manually change
/bin/false to /bin/bash in /etc/passwd.

This is not very nice. It took me a while to figure out what was wrong.
Currently, the ebuild uses useradd to add postgres. It should probably also use
usermod to set the shell to /bin/bash if the user postgres already exists.

Also, since postgresql-7.2.3-r1 no longer (as far as I can see) uses sudo, the
ebuild should not depend on app-admin/sudo.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2002-10-28 10:54:52 UTC]

giving non-interactive accounts a valid shell is bad 

[Comment 2 Martin Vollrathson 2002-10-28 17:00:00 UTC]

Yes. Perhaps go back to using sudo instead of su -c, then.

[Comment 3 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-07-09 12:08:22 UTC]

how about 7.3.3 ?

[Comment 4 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-07-09 12:10:41 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10367 ***