Re: command line options to pass to the postmaster - controlling UNIX socket permiss

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Dan The Man" <bitsandbytes88(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: command line options to pass to the postmaster - controlling UNIX socket permiss
Date: 2005-11-29 16:35:14
Message-ID: 7875.1133282114@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Dan The Man" <bitsandbytes88(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
> I'm running postgres on a Linux server SuSE SLES. When I run postgresql
> 8.0.3, I get /tmp/.s.PGSQLl.5432 socket open with group and owner
> permissions. The group permissions are the default group of the postgres
> account and the owner is postgres. If I want to start postgres with a
> non-default group called db-admins or something is that an option?

See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/runtime-config.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-CONNECTION
particularly unix_socket_group and unix_socket_permissions.

regards, tom lane

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