Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FWIW, I know the FreeBSD port creates both a pgsql user and a pgsql group. > I have seen evidence that some Linux distributions create a postgres user.
There are a lot of Unixen in which adduser (or local equivalent) by default will create a group for each user. However, there are also a lot of Unixen in which it won't. It's also worth pointing out that the server.key file lives in $PGDATA, which we *also* enforce no-group-or-world permissions on. To make server.key editable by (non-root) users other than postgres, we'd have to rethink the permissions for $PGDATA as well as server.key itself. I am really hesitant to weaken those permission checks, though. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]