| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Adam Brightwell <adam(dot)brightwell(at)crunchydatasolutions(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Additional role attributes && superuser review |
| Date: | 2016-01-17 18:44:56 |
| Message-ID: | 20160117184456.GD16401@momjian.us |
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On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 12:55:16PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> I'd like to be able to include, in both of those, a simple set of
> instructions for granting the necessary rights to the user who is
> running those processes. A set of rights which an administrator can go
> look up and easily read and understand the result of those grants. For
> example:
>
...
> pgbackrest:
>
> To run pgbackrest as a non-superuser and not the 'postgres' system
> user, grant the pg_backup role to the backrest user and ensure the
> backrest system user has read access to the database files (eg: by
> having the system user be a member of the 'postgres' group):
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Just to clarify, the 'postgres' OS user group cannot read the data
directory, e.g.
drwx------ 19 postgres staff 4096 Jan 17 12:19 data/
^^^group
I assume we don't want to change that.
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