Re: Starting Postgres : user from same group

Abhishek Sharma G wrote:
> As per the Postgres design, only the user who is owner of the Postgres's Cluster Directory ( which has
> permission 700 ) can own the Postgres daemon process.
> But I have a requirement so that any other user belonging to the same group can also start the
> Postgres daemon. It might not be very difficult to change the code for this use case ( at least it
> seems to be ),
> But could some one please suggest me whether this is advisable or I will be messing up with the design
> ( I am in particular worried about the shared memory ) .

That's not really a question for the hackers list.

I'd say you set the SETUID bit on the postgres executable and make sure
that only the right people can execute it.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe