Re: Suppress checking of chmod 700 on data-dir?

From: Kevin Hunter <hunteke(at)earlham(dot)edu>
To: Johannes Konert <jkonert(at)t3go(dot)de>
Cc: PostgreSQL General List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Suppress checking of chmod 700 on data-dir?
Date: 2007-06-12 13:07:57
Message-ID: 466E9AAD.10108@earlham.edu
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At 2:05a -0400 on 12 Jun 2007, Johannes Konert wrote:
> that was a good hint. Suids are not working on bash-scripts, but with a
> restricted entry in /etc/sudoers now the backup-user can execute a
> copy-and-access-script to get the files from within PGDATA-dir.

If you're curious as to /why/ setuids don't work on scripts, this FAQ
may be of interest:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part4/section-7.html

Kevin

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