Re: pgsql-server/src/interfaces/libpq fe-connect.c - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> En Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:15:02 +0800
> "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> escribi?:
>
> > Does this patch also check that it's not world-writable?
>
> Yes (S_IRWXG | S_IRWXO).
>
> What it doesn't check is that the directory it lives in is also not
> world- or group-writable, or that it is a regular file.

I think the existing checks are enough.

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