Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > > Chris said he did: > >> Well all I did to fix it on FreeBSD was to remove the '-o "$LOGNAME" = > >> 'root'' bit... > > so I figured the patch would help, no? > > No, because there's no good reason to suppose that $USER wouldn't be set.
But if USER is set, why check LOGNAME? > I think we should remove that entire code block, and instead check for a > zero value of EffectiveUser after doing the id bit. > > (I'm not finding it right now, but I'm pretty sure that the SUS > specifies that numeric userid == 0 for superuser, whereas "root" is not > required to be the name, so this would be more correct anyway.) Can we assume 'id' is on all unix systems? -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us SRA OSS, Inc. http://www.sraoss.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
