Re: initdb and "exit_nicely"...

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
> At 11:35 AM 18-05-2000 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> >On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 11:05:58AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> "Len Morgan" <len-morgan(at)crcom(dot)net> writes:
> >> > RedHat based rpm installations create the postgres superuser account as
> >> > part of the process and set the home directory for this user to PG_DATA.

> >> To be blunt, that's *incredibly* brain dead.

> >Does Red Hat actually make the _data_ directory the home? Debian avoids
> >this by making /var/lib/postgres the home, and data/ under that the PGDATA
> >directory. It sure doesn't seem a good idea to be using PGDATA as a home
> >directory.

> I dunno, AFAIK it didn't seem to do such a thing. If it did, it should be
> changed- very dangerous. Files may be uploaded or written to unfortunate
> places.

PostgreSQL 7.0 RPMs place home for postgres to be /var/lib/pgsql, and PGDATA is
/var/lib/pgsql/data. I just _look_ stupid. :-) The postgres user's home was
changed for 7.0 just exactly because of the bad choice of home being PGDATA.

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Lamar Owen
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