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Re: ipcclean in 8.1 broken?

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

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From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: "Brusser, Michael" <Michael.Brusser@matrixone.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-03-02T01:29:22Z
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> I wonder if there could be a potential problem with using this approach
> -
> checking on $USER == root.
> 
> Although it is a common practice, I think a superuser does not have to
> be root.

Yes, like the 'toor' account in FreeBSD... (disabled by default though)

Chris