Re: [HACKERS] initdb problems on Solaris
Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk>
From: Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk>
To: emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-01-20T08:39:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Agreed, Either way, it's broken now and needs fixing. Keith. >Actually, I see no reason why the superuser's Postgres ID number >shouldn't default to 0. If there's code in there to reject that, >isn't it doing the wrong thing? > >The postmaster and backend can and should refuse to run with an >effective Unix userid of 0 (root), but that doesn't mean that >a Postgres ID of 0 is insecure, does it? > > regards, tom lane