Re: postgres database user account

From: "Maria L(dot) Wilson" <Maria(dot)L(dot)Wilson-1(at)nasa(dot)gov>
To: "jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Wilson, Maria Louise (LARC-E301)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS]" <m(dot)l(dot)wilson(at)nasa(dot)gov>, "Plugge, Joe R(dot)" <JRPlugge(at)west(dot)com>, "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postgres database user account
Date: 2010-06-30 20:13:17
Message-ID: 4C2BA55D.9000700@nasa.gov
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and what would be those "extremely specific purposes"?

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 16:02 -0400, Maria L. Wilson wrote:
>
>> ok - thanks that makes sense....
>>
>> so what about the operating system account that is different? What we
>> are planning on doing with the OS acct (postgres) is only allowing users
>> sudo ability to this account. Nobody should be able to directly log
>> into it. Do you think that will cause problems?
>>
>
> You should treat the postgres account like root. In reality nobody
> should be logging in as postgres on the OS except for extremely specific
> purposes.
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>

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