but apparently dpkg wants to create databases for Mailman and Mailman Web.

During the installation process dpkg creates not only a database and a database user with approriate permissions, but also many tables.

Dpkg allows to skip database configuration. Is there routine or skript to create database, database user and all required tables after the installation process has finished?

Best regards, Markus

On 31.10.22 18:52, Mark Sapiro wrote:

On 10/31/22 07:04, Markus Ludwig Grandpré wrote:

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Dear Mailman3 list,

I try to install the Mailman3 software 3.3.3-1 on a Debian 11 system with a remote Postgres database server. During the installation process dpkg is asking for the DBA password that our DBA team would not provide to me. So what can I do?

This is really a question for Debian, but apparently dpkg wants to create databases for Mailman and Mailman Web. You will need to get your DBA team to create these databases (probably named mailman and mailmanweb) and a Mailman user (probably list) with all access to these databases and probably manually configure the [database] section of mailman.cfg and DATABASES on Django's settings

-- Markus Ludwig Grandpré Universität Konstanz Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM) Abteilung IT-Dienste Forschung und Lehre, Tel: ++49 7531 88 4342

blackout69 writes:

For mailman3 sudo dpkg-reconfigure mailman3

For mailman3-web sudo dpkg-reconfigure mailman3-web

I guess those will work too as long as the users and databases have been created. But they'll still fail at the first step without that (and they might fail anyway if checking for the existence of those users and databases involves logging in to the database as the admin user).