Re: real and effective user ids must match

From: Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
Cc: david(dot)lao(at)sharpasia(dot)com(dot)mo, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: real and effective user ids must match
Date: 2006-09-15 05:24:29
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0609142223010.18755@discord.home.frostconsultingllc.com
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Michael Fuhr wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 11:56:18AM +0800, david(dot)lao(at)sharpasia(dot)com(dot)mo wrote:
>
> I don't have a Linux box to test but that output isn't what I'd
> expect, and it's not what I get with the equivalent commands on
> Solaris and FreeBSD. The above output shows that the real uid and
> effective uid are different, which is what the postmaster is
> complaining about. I'd expect them to be the same: both postgres.
> Can anybody else with a Linux box test the above command?

On my FC4 machine running 2.6.16-1.2111_FC4:

uid=26(postgres) gid=26(postgres) groups=26(postgres) context=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t

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