nntpchan/doc/database/postgres/configure-postgres.md

Configuring Postgres database

These are instructions for setting up NNTPChan with Postgres as the data-storage system.

Configuring Postgres

A user with sufficient privileges to run su is required (hint: you can use root). This command switches to the Postgres user, creates a Postgres role called srnd, and prompts for a password. For illustrative purposes, we will use srnd as the password.

# su - postgres -c "createuser --pwprompt --createdb --encrypted srnd"

Important

It's easiest to connect to Postgres using role-based authentication. In this case, our Linux user srnd matches up with our Postgres role srnd, so role-based authentication can take place. If you're running SRNDv2 as a different user (e.g. nntpchan), you will need to create a role that matches that user using the command above.