On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Holger Klawitter wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have the problem that I need to have a group of users (namely postgres and
> the dbadmin) with access to pg_hba.conf.
>
> As postgres (the user under with the process is actually running) cannot
> obtain a shell, I need group access to the data directory in order to
> configure postgres.
>
> drwxrwx--- 6 postgres postgres 4096 Jan 27 10:14 data/
>
> However postgres refuses to start with 0770 permission.
What about if you change just the pg_hba.conf file and not the directory? That
is all dbadmin needs afterall.
Nigel Andrews
