Re: [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Safer auto-initdb for RPM init

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Reinhard Max <max(at)suse(dot)de>, pgsqlrpms-hackers(at)pgfoundry(dot)org, Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
Subject: Re: [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Safer auto-initdb for RPM init
Date: 2006-08-25 14:44:55
Message-ID: 200608251644.56678.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 16:31 schrieb Reinhard Max:
> But shouldn't mountpoints always have 000 permissions to prevent
> writing into the directory as long as nothing is mounted to it?

That's an interesting point, but in practice nobody does that. And we're
trying to defend exactly against the case where someone has set up a mount
point manually.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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