| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Mark Volpe <volpe(dot)mark(at)epa(dot)gov>, Mark Volpe <volpe(dot)mark(at)epamail(dot)epa(dot)gov>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] Re: [PATCH] Re: Setuid functions |
| Date: | 2001-07-12 17:44:49 |
| Message-ID: | 200107121744.f6CHinY18182@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Mark Volpe writes:
>
> > Good point. Would the issue be resolved by either:
> >
> > - Only allowing the database superuser to use this mechanism?
>
> If you mean "only allow a superuser do define functions using this
> mechanism", that could work. But it would probably make this feature a
> lot less attractive, because any setuid function would have to run with
> super powers.
Patch backed out until we resolve the security issues. It remains in
the patch queue.
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