Juvenile BASH question

Bill Oliver vendor at billoblog.com
Mon Oct 21 13:31:33 UTC 2013


On Mon, 21 Oct 2013, Mark Haney wrote:

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> Is it asking for root password or postgres password?
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> As I'm running the script as root, it's almost certainly asking for thepostgres user password.
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Heh.  You'd think so.  But, I've managed to inadvertently su to some user in a script and then run a subordinate script that required root password...

Sigh.  If there's a way to screw up, I've figured out how to do it at least once.

billo


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