Re: SELinux strangeness with 8.1.2 and 8.1.3 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: SELinux strangeness with 8.1.2 and 8.1.3
Date
Msg-id 22292.1141280500@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to SELinux strangeness with 8.1.2 and 8.1.3  ("Just Someone" <just.some@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: SELinux strangeness with 8.1.2 and 8.1.3  ("Just Someone" <just.some@gmail.com>)
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"Just Someone" <just.some@gmail.com> writes:
> I researched it a bit, and tried a few things, and discovered that the
> problem is in the init script at /etc/init.d/postgres users runuser
> instead of su on SELinux enabled systems. But for some reason it won't
> work this way. I manually reveted it to use su and it works fine.

I don't think I believe this ... not least because the runuser-for-su
substitution has been in there for a long time.  It doesn't explain
a breakage during an FC4 update.

Can you provide a reasonably self-contained demonstration of the problem
you saw?

            regards, tom lane

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