Re: real and effective user ids must match

From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
To: Liustech <david(dot)lao(at)sharpasia(dot)com(dot)mo>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: real and effective user ids must match
Date: 2006-09-14 06:26:33
Message-ID: 20060914062633.GA72750@winnie.fuhr.org
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On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 02:26:11PM +0800, Liustech wrote:
> My postgres can not start up, I get this error message:
>
> postmaster successfully started
> /usr/bin/postmaster: real and effective user ids must match

How are you starting the postmaster? The error suggests that the
postmaster or the program that runs the postmaster is setuid. For
security reasons PostgreSQL refuses to run that way.

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Michael Fuhr

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