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From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Installing PostgreSQL as "postgress" versus "root"
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Msg-id 20050112201324.U88275@megazone.bigpanda.com
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In response to Re: Installing PostgreSQL as "postgress" versus "root" Debate!  ("Goulet, Dick" <DGoulet@vicr.com>)
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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.

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