Re: postgres-user <-> unix user

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Tomas B. Winkler wrote:

>
> I would like to allow any user which has an unix account in our system to
> be able to connect a DB. Can be postgres configured that an unix user
> become automatically also a postgres user ? I can figure out some ways
> to do it yet I'm looking for the most transparent one.

Back in my Oracle days on IBM RS6000 I seem to remember we had to manually
add the user as an Oarcle user. This included sometimes two accounts.
The normal user and an OPS$usename account so they could login
automagically to an Oracle instance.
Basically I think you'll need to add them as part of the adduser/useradd
process and/or run a script against the passwd file to create them.

rod
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