Re: [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Safer auto-initdb for RPM init

From: "Bort, Paul" <pbort(at)tmwsystems(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Safer auto-initdb for RPM init
Date: 2006-08-25 17:22:28
Message-ID: DB106B1B5B8F734B8FF3E155A3A556C202D4FE7F@clemail1.tmwsystems.com
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> Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 16:31 schrieb Reinhard Max:
> > But shouldn't mountpoints always have 000 permissions to prevent
> > writing into the directory as long as nothing is mounted to it?
>
> That's an interesting point, but in practice nobody does
> that. And we're
> trying to defend exactly against the case where someone has
> set up a mount
> point manually.
>

It had never occurred to me, but I'm definitely going to start doing it
now. So it will be in practice, at least around here.

Regards,
Paul Bort

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