[CentOS8]Fresh install don't create system user

[flotho]

Hi,

Thanks for the awesome work. Is it normal that with a fressh centos 8 installation I have this kind of messages :

PostgreSQL | Make sure the postgres data directory exists

fatal: [myansiblehost]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "gid": 0,
    "group": "root",
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "_diff_peek": null,
            "_original_basename": null,
            "access_time": null,
            "access_time_format": "%Y%m%d%H%M.%S",
            "attributes": null,
            "backup": null,
            "content": null,
            "delimiter": null,
            "directory_mode": null,
            "follow": true,
            "force": false,
            "group": "postgres",
            "mode": 448,
            "modification_time": null,
            "modification_time_format": "%Y%m%d%H%M.%S",
            "owner": "postgres",
            "path": "/var/lib/pgsql/11/data",
            "recurse": false,
            "regexp": null,
            "remote_src": null,
            "selevel": null,
            "serole": null,
            "setype": null,
            "seuser": null,
            "src": null,
            "state": "directory",
            "unsafe_writes": null
        }
    },
    "mode": "0755",
    "msg": "chown failed: failed to look up user postgres",
    "owner": "root",
    "path": "/var/lib/pgsql/11/data",
    "size": 4096,
    "state": "directory",
    "uid": 0
}

The postgres user is not available in the system, is it a normal way to work ? Should your role deal with it ?

[flotho]

Hi

I also think that this https://github.com/ANXS/postgresql/blob/97d6d5c4bbbc1f4860fbf0959c02ff4f41b0e86e/tasks/main.yml#L23 should be changed accordingly to deal with dnf package manager

[jdeg]

Hi,

Thanks for the awesome work. Is it normal that with a fressh centos 8 installation I have this kind of messages :

PostgreSQL | Make sure the postgres data directory exists

fatal: [myansiblehost]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "gid": 0,
    "group": "root",
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "_diff_peek": null,
            "_original_basename": null,
            "access_time": null,
            "access_time_format": "%Y%m%d%H%M.%S",
            "attributes": null,
            "backup": null,
            "content": null,
            "delimiter": null,
            "directory_mode": null,
            "follow": true,
            "force": false,
            "group": "postgres",
            "mode": 448,
            "modification_time": null,
            "modification_time_format": "%Y%m%d%H%M.%S",
            "owner": "postgres",
            "path": "/var/lib/pgsql/11/data",
            "recurse": false,
            "regexp": null,
            "remote_src": null,
            "selevel": null,
            "serole": null,
            "setype": null,
            "seuser": null,
            "src": null,
            "state": "directory",
            "unsafe_writes": null
        }
    },
    "mode": "0755",
    "msg": "chown failed: failed to look up user postgres",
    "owner": "root",
    "path": "/var/lib/pgsql/11/data",
    "size": 4096,
    "state": "directory",
    "uid": 0
}

The postgres user is not available in the system, is it a normal way to work ? Should your role deal with it ?

@flotho Did you find a solution for this issue?

I'm getting the same output when I run the playbook

TASK [ANXS.postgresql : PostgreSQL | Make sure the postgres data directory exists] ************************************************************************************************************************* fatal: [69.164.199.147]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "gid": 0, "group": "root", "mode": "0755", "msg": "chown failed: failed to look up user postgres", "owner": "root", "path": "/var/lib/pgsql/11/data", "secontext": "unconfined_u:object_r:postgresql_db_t:s0", "size": 4096, "state": "directory", "uid": 0}

[jdeg]

Never mind, I downloaded the code from the repo instead of Galaxy and it worked.

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