Re: [Gnumed-devel] bootstrapping database problem

[James Busser]

On 15-Jul-08, at 7:18 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > postgres-alikes gmadm postgres
>
> Same here, that last line is only needed if you have a
> system user gmadm which you want to use to handle the
> bootstrapping.
>
> In fact, the whole pg_ident.conf business is only needed
> when you want to bootstrap as a user different from either
> root or postgres.

I noted (from my exclusion of gmadm from my sudoers file) that  
without sudo, the system user gmadm cannot bootstrap.

Why is that, since I would have thought that proper configuration of  
postgres would cause PostgreSQL to allow gmadm to do whatever  
PostgreSQL would allow postgres to do.

Is it a "postgres" thing, or is there something that must be done at  
the system level that requires that gmadm be a sudoer?