AW: AW: [HACKERS] initdb problems on Solaris

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'Peter Eisentraut'" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: "'hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org'" <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: AW: AW: [HACKERS] initdb problems on Solaris
Date: 2000-01-20 13:39:59
Message-ID: 219F68D65015D011A8E000006F8590C603FDC213@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> > I think this setup has the advatage, that we could someday issue
> > setuid() calls for "dba and untrusted stored procedures",
> which would
> > imho be a very handy feature.
>
> That would require you to set up a Unix user for every Postgres user,
> which is certainly not necassary in the general case.

Yes, we would somehow need to distinguish between
OS users and DB only users.

Andreas

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