From 4fb24f8cdb6e7e13435ae08c3ca93711eb87a987 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Noah Slater Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 16:39:39 +0000 Subject: improved example adduser invokation git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/couchdb/trunk@663654 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- README | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 7453f61e..553fe053 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -129,14 +129,16 @@ You can use whatever tool your system provides to create a new `couchdb` user. On many UNIX-like systems you can run the following command: - adduser couchdb + adduser --system --home /var/lib/couchdb --no-create-home \ + --shell /bin/bash --group --gecos "CouchDB Administrator" couchdb OS X provides the standard Accounts option from the System Preferences application or you can optionally use the Workgroup Manager application which can be downloaded as part of the [Server Admin Tools][14]. -You should set the home directory of the `couchdb` user to -`/usr/local/var/lib/couchdb` which is the Apache CouchDB database directory. +You should make sure that the `couchdb` user has a working POSIX shell and set +the home directory to `/usr/local/var/lib/couchdb` which is the Apache CouchDB +database directory. Make sure to change the ownership of the Apache CouchDB data directories by running the following commands: -- cgit v1.2.3