Whatever, I'll keep root only for absolutely restricted use & install under a separate user account. Works just fine & it makes the auditors & sysadmin feel better.
Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -----Original Message----- From: Stephan Szabo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:14 PM To: Goulet, Dick Cc: Peter Eisentraut; Tomeh, Husam; PgSQL ADMIN Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Installing PostgreSQL as "postgress" versus "root" Debate! On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, 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. Thereby any local Not on any reasonable system unless installed setuid at which point I don't think they'd run since I think the don't run as root code would prevent it. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
