Re: ipcclean in 8.1 broken? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ipcclean in 8.1 broken?
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Msg-id 1975.1141408169@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: ipcclean in 8.1 broken?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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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.

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.)
        regards, tom lane


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