Re: ipcclean in 8.1 broken?

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Brusser, Michael" <Michael(dot)Brusser(at)matrixone(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ipcclean in 8.1 broken?
Date: 2006-03-02 01:29:22
Message-ID: 44064A72.6060100@familyhealth.com.au
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> I wonder if there could be a potential problem with using this approach
> -
> checking on $USER == root.
>
> Although it is a common practice, I think a superuser does not have to
> be root.

Yes, like the 'toor' account in FreeBSD... (disabled by default though)

Chris

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