Re: Installing PostgreSQL as "postgress" versus "root"

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: "Goulet, Dick" <DGoulet(at)vicr(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Tomeh, Husam" <htomeh(at)firstam(dot)com>, PgSQL ADMIN <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Installing PostgreSQL as "postgress" versus "root"
Date: 2005-01-13 04:14:24
Message-ID: 20050112201324.U88275@megazone.bigpanda.com
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Goulet, Dick wrote:

> You may well be on the development team, but you are wrong for
> one very important reason. If the Postgresql executables are owned by
> root they execute with the priviledges of root. Thereby any local

Not on any reasonable system unless installed setuid at which point I
don't think they'd run since I think the don't run as root code would
prevent it.

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