Tom Lane wrote: > Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Enable pg_ctl to give up admin privileges when starting the server under > >> Windows (if newer than NT4, else works same as before). > > > I don't suppose we could consider doing this for Unix-based systems too? > > I think it'd certainly be nice. It's also how quite a few other Unix > > daemons operate. > > Why should we try to duplicate the functionality of "su"? And we would > have to largely duplicate it, not just change process UID. > > I don't see the need for it anyway. The only reason this patch went in > at all is to compensate for the general level of ignorance of Windows > users...
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