| From: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Fwd: init scripts and su |
| Date: | 2004-08-06 09:50:54 |
| Message-ID: | 4113547E.9030409@pse-consulting.de |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>
>>I was asked on IRC just why we can't have user=postgres and
>>group=postgres in the postgresql.conf, and simply when we are run as
>>root, switch to that user and group.
>
>
> I should think that running as root up until sometime after we have read
> postgresql.conf would open up more security issues. It's certainly not
> a way to close this one...
>
postmaster could use postgres/postgres by default, overridable by
command line.
Regards,
Andreas
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