| From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
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| To: | Basil Peace <grv87(at)yandex(dot)ru> |
| Cc: | Pg Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #6652: Installer grants postgres user rights for the whole disk, not specified subfolder |
| Date: | 2012-06-06 19:07:26 |
| Message-ID: | CA+OCxowB2GEtevP2=sF621Aud1o-9Hx2QHE=D187VS00xS2Kcw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Basil Peace <grv87(at)yandex(dot)ru> wrote:
> In my case invalid argument (root directory instead of specified data directory) was passed by installer to icacls. That's what I saw. It wasn't problem of icacls, it was a problem in pgsql installer.
That's supposed to happen. It sets the permissions on the data
directory and then recurses back up to the root directory, ensuring
the postgres account is able to read all the parent directories -
otherwise, even if it has write permissions on the data directory
itself, it cannot access it.
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