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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 23:47:13 -0600
From: Brent Burton <Brent.Burton@math.tamu.edu>
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Subject: User semantics in Postgres
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Hello,

I am trying to create a gateway between Postgres and HTTP and I'm
running into some problems.

To make a long story short, httpd normally runs as user nobody.  I added
nobody to the database as userid 65534 (same as unix), but postgres
later reports it as -2 (the 16-bit signed representation of 65534).
Thinking this may be the problem, I then create user stupid (uid 25)
and add stupid to the database.  In the meantime, httpd is restarted
and configured to run as stupid (so the gateway will be setuid stupid).

Neither of the above techniques worked; the monitor fails with the error:
"/usr/local/postgres/bin/monitor: could not find a valid user name"

Can somebody please explain what the monitor looks for concerning
uid/eid's?  Has anybody else solved a similar problem?

Thanks for your time and I appreciate any tips.

-bpb

Brent.Burton@math.tamu.edu

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