Re: Creating of User and Database

On 5/11/06, APSC, Patrick Chee Seng Onn <APSC@bossard.com.sg> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I've just installed postgresql onto my system but unable to successfully add new users and databases. I would
receivea error message: 
>
>         createuser: could not connect to database template1: FATAL user "root" does not exist
>
>         createdb: could not connect to database template1: FATAL user "root" does not exist
>
>   what is the error I am facing anyway?

Either try:

createuser -U postgres new_username

or, su to postgres:

su - postgres

and try again:

createuser new_username

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