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Re: [HACKERS] make install fails in perl5 ...

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

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From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-10-27T17:23:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> Hmmm.  That's how I do it, although it *is* a PITA to chown everything
> to do the regression tests.  It just seems odd to have one package
> install this way when all the other packages I install are done from
> root.

There is a security exposure to running the server as root. Other
packages can make their own security arrangements; this is ours.

My commercial Ingres package didn't run as root either.

                  - Tom