On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote:
> We seem to have a ever-standing bug against postgresql saying we
> cannot have a user called www-data accessing databases (postgresql
> complains about the '-' in the name, it looks like it is not a valid char
> for postgresql usernames at all). Since I have been making kludges in
> several scripts a client of mine has for them to work on debian+Pg I
> started to wonder... Where does the name "www-data" come from? IS there any
> argument against 'www' ?
Actually, in postgres if you create "www-data" (quotes included and they
must be double quotes) it works.
> See, I am not suggesting that we change the username to solve the
> postgres problem, this would solve this problem, but not THE problem with
> postgres. I am just wondering why it is not called just 'www'.
I've wondered that myself.
- Tom
