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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 16:02:16 -0600
From: Brent Burton <Brent.Burton@math.tamu.edu>
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To: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: User semantics in Postgres
Cc: brentb@fourier.math.tamu.edu
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Hello, again.

I recently emailed a (badly phrased) question to the list concerning
interfacing Postgres into our web.

What I didn't explain very well was that I created a special user to
work as both the httpd user, and as a postgres user.  This new special
user, then called 'stupid', failed to work.

I'd like to thank Kacper.Nowicki@fuw.edu.pl for the correct solution:

httpd does not set the USER or LOGNAME envariables that libpq requires.

Once I set these, my gateway worked properly.  Other gateway applications
may need USER, LOGNAME, PATH and other envariables set for correct
operation.

Thanks,
-Brent

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