pglistener-update - postgres listener.
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Description
pglistener-update is a daemon that generates files from Postgres database.
It is a tool that listens for notifies from a Postgres database and then calls out to a number of hooks
which do everything from updating the password database to updating accounts in RT.
Name
pglistener-update - postgres listener.
Setting Up
Install a usable pglistener config in /etc/pglistener/pglistener.conf and should be mode 600, user
pglistener.
Make symlinks for databases in /var/lib/misc:
cd /var/lib/misc
ln -s ../pglistener/group.db
ln -s ../pglistener/passwd.db
ln -s ../pglistener/shadow.db
If you have ssh keys for everybody on the host, add the following two lines to /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
AuthorizedKeysFile /root/%u/.ssh/authorized_keys
AuthorizedKeysFile2 /var/lib/misc/sshkeys/%u
Make sure pam_mkhomedir is set up, /etc/pam.d/common-session should contain:
session required pam_mkhomedir.so
Usage
Config and hooks live under:
/var/lib/pglistener
/var/lib/pglistener/hooks
/etc/pglistener
/etc/pglistener/conf.d
It is fine to restart postgres while pglistener is running.
If pglistener crashes for whatever reason, it can be restarted as a normal service.
Pglistener can in general be restarted at any time, it's quick to start and there are no interruptions to
services or authentication.
