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