| From: | Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
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| To: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Installing PostgreSQL as "postgress" versus "root" Debate! |
| Date: | 2005-01-13 17:36:12 |
| Message-ID: | m3is615j03.fsf@knuth.knuth.cbbrowne.com |
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Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when DGoulet(at)vicr(dot)com ("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.
Methinks you may not understand Unix permissions as well as you need
to.
Binaries only execute with the privileges of root if:
a) They are being run by the root user, or
b) They are owned by root and have the "setuid" bit set.
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