Re: [gentoo-user] su postgres = cannot retrieve authentication info

I just encounter this problem. It seems /etc/shadow is not updated while merging postgres, so you just have to had this line to your shadow file: postgres:*:9797:0: It solves the problem for me. Xavier Guerin 2005/7/22, Craig Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When I try and start postgres, I

[gentoo-user] su postgres = cannot retrieve authentication info

When I try and start postgres, I get the following error su: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. The same error message appears if I try 'su - postgres', but not when I login as root or as myself. Any ideas? Craig -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list