[postgis-users] user postgres fiasco(?) on Mac OS X 10.6.6

[Rosemary Alles]

Thanks William.

I redid the installation (by *actually* reading the readme -duh- and things
appear to be working).

The installation, uses an install wiz which asks for the password, etc.
(system password for the user postgres vs the db password) - the
installation proceeds ok as long as shared mem has been set (as required)
and the system rebooted to register the change *prior* to installation.

Anyway, I need to install PostGIS on top of this, and wonder where (which
directory under /Library/PostgreSQL/9.0/ I should untar the PostGIS binaries
from: http://www.kyngchaos.com/software:postgres?

Thanks much,
rosemary.

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 8:54 AM, William Kyngesburye
<woklist at kyngchaos.com>wrote:

> On Mar 5, 2011, at 4:38 AM, Rosemary Alles wrote:
>
> > Hullo all,
> >
> > After running around in circles for a bit, I decide I would ask. The
> installation of PostgreSQL from
> http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload#osxapparently created a user "postgres" (with no home directory - but that's
> ok) and if there's a password (maybe there isn't one?) then I have no idea
> what it is... I had to enable root to get into the data directory (su -
> postgress), now I'm assuming I have to edit pg_hba.conf (to change/set the
> password - authenticate users/roles) before I can do anything else?
> >
> This is normal.  (I *do* have this info in my Postgres distribution)  There
> is no password, but it's a special null password, not an empty password, so
> it can't be used to login to anything.  It's a user solely used for running
> Postgres.  But you can force authentication (for editing the config files)
> with root.
>
>
> > Still, the current config is as follows, which appears to grant access to
> "all" w/trust? If so, why am I getting an error upon trying to create a DB
> as myself/admin?
> >
> > # TYPE  DATABASE        USER            CIDR-ADDRESS            METHOD
> > # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
> > local   all             all                                     trust
> > # IPv4 local connections:
> > host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            trust
> > # IPv6 local connections:
> > host    all             all             ::1/128                 trust
> >
> > error:
> > createdb: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL:  role
> "whatever_name" does not
> >
> > exist
> >
> Have you set up any postgres users, "roles", yet?  Postgres doesn't use
> system users.  A "postgres" role is created on initialization (independent
> of the system postgres user).  Use that to create other roles and to manage
> other stuff.
>
>
> Check the Postgres documentation and other help resources for more details.
>  My Postgres distribution has some basics, to get people started.
>
>
> >  Any help is good,
> > rosemary.
> >
> >
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