| From: | Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, Tomasz Ostrowski <tometzky(at)batory(dot)org(dot)pl> |
| Subject: | Re: Spoofing as the postmaster |
| Date: | 2007-12-24 20:27:24 |
| Message-ID: | 20071224202724.GO91207@decibel.org |
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On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 09:25:05AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> So, what solutions exist? We could require the use of port numbers less
> than 1024 which typically require root and then become a non-root user,
> but that requires root to start the server. We could put the unix
I don't know about *requiring* this, but it would certainly be a nice
option to have. Right now there's absolutely no way that you could get
Postgres to use a port < 1024.
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