Re: [Gnumed-devel] bootstrapping permissions

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Donnerstag 25 Februar 2010 12:44:15 schrieb Karsten Hilbert:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:31:32PM +0100, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:
> > Rogerio (I think) contacted me via the Chat and asked what the password
> > is that Ubuntu 9.10 is asking him when running gm-bootstrap_server.
> > 
> > I ran Ubuntu 9.10 and it looks like no password is needed when running as
> > user root. When you try this as user foo it will ask a password.
> > 
> > I assume this is the password for the user postgres.
> 
>       $> grep su /usr/sbin/gm-bootstrap_server
>       if ! su -c "psql -t -d template1 -c \"show lc_ctype;\"" postgres | grep 
> -
q
> -e C -e UTF-8 ; then
> 
> > I believe postgres usually has no password.
> > 
> > So is the recommended procedure to run as root ?
> 
>       $> grep root /usr/sbin/gm-bootstrap_server
>       # It should be run as root and will call the upstream script to
> 
>       $> head -15 /usr/sbin/gm-bootstrap_server
>       #!/bin/sh
> 
>       #==============================================================
>       # $Source:
> /home/ncq/Projekte/cvs2git/vcs-mirror/gnumed/gnumed/server/gm-bootstrap_se
> rver,v $ # $Id: gm-bootstrap_server,v 1.2 2009-10-28 16:44:13 ncq Exp $
>       #
>       # author: Andreas Tille, Karsten Hilbert
>       # license: GPL v2
>       #
>       # This wrapper is intended to be installed into a systemwide
>       # admin-only executable directory such as "/usr/sbin/"
>       #
>       # It should be run as root and will call the upstream script to
>       # actually bootstrap the latest database from scratch.

That is what I figured. Rogerio did not yet tell me if he tried as normal user 
or root.

Sebastian