FATAL: could not access private key file “/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key”: Permission denied

Question

I believe I ended up mixing up permissions at /etc/ssl directories tree as the last modification was made on 18th November and a day after I could not get my PostgreSQL to work.

Answer 1

Check the output of

$ sudo -u postgres
$ cd /etc/ssl/private
$ ls

If the response is "Permission denied" do

$ chown postgres:ssl-cert /etc/ssl/private/
$ chown postgres:postgres /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key