| From: | "murphy pope" <pope_murphy(at)hotmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Why is ALLOW_ABSOLUTE_DBPATHS unsafe? |
| Date: | 2002-05-12 20:05:13 |
| Message-ID: | F175T5n9dtHXZkaIZrb00000f82@hotmail.com |
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The "Managing Databases" section of the Administrator's Guide says that
absolute DB paths introduce a security risk.
The CREATE DATABASE documentation says that there are security *AND* data
integrity issues involved with absolute DB paths.
Maybe I'm just not devious enough, but I can't figure out what the risks
are. Can anyone enlighten me?
Also, why are relative DB paths completely disallowed. I can see that you
would have to store the location relative to the cluster's path, but I must
be missing something here too. Thanks for any ideas.
-- Murphy
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