Re: Big problem

From: Markus Bertheau <twanger(at)bluetwanger(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, sergiomb(at)netcabo(dot)pt
Subject: Re: Big problem
Date: 2004-05-24 14:36:59
Message-ID: 1085409418.3252.4.camel@dicaprio.akademie1.de
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В Пнд, 24.05.2004, в 16:12, Tom Lane пишет:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > A guy on the IRC channel managed to accidentally click the wrong thing
> > in phpPgAdmin and managed to remove superuser privileges from his only
> > superuser.
>
> No sweat; we've seen this one before.
>
> Stop postmaster and start a standalone backend. Now you are a
> superuser, and you can create a new superuser, or just go in and UPDATE
> pg_shadow to make your original user super again. Exit standalone
> backend, restart postmaster, have a beer.

The question whether we should prevent this from happening stands; I
think we should.

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Markus Bertheau <twanger(at)bluetwanger(dot)de>

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