| From: | "Goulet, Dick" <DGoulet(at)vicr(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Stephan Szabo" <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Tomeh, Husam" <htomeh(at)firstam(dot)com>, "PgSQL ADMIN" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Installing PostgreSQL as "postgress" versus "root" Debate! |
| Date: | 2005-01-13 04:21:14 |
| Message-ID: | 4001DEAF7DF9BD498B58B45051FBEA650207AAD3@25exch1.vicorpower.vicr.com |
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Whatever, I'll keep root only for absolutely restricted use & install
under a separate user account. Works just fine & it makes the auditors
& sysadmin feel better.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephan Szabo [mailto:sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:14 PM
To: Goulet, Dick
Cc: Peter Eisentraut; Tomeh, Husam; PgSQL ADMIN
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Installing PostgreSQL as "postgress" versus "root"
Debate!
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Goulet, Dick wrote:
> You may well be on the development team, but you are wrong for
> one very important reason. If the Postgresql executables are owned by
> root they execute with the priviledges of root. Thereby any local
Not on any reasonable system unless installed setuid at which point I
don't think they'd run since I think the don't run as root code would
prevent it.
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