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Re: Incorrect password using pg_ctl

Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>

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From: Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>
To: Matthew Stanfield <matthew@propertyknowledge.com>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, PostgreSQL General Mailing List <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-04-17T15:59:57Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
Matthew Stanfield <matthew@propertyknowledge.com> writes:

> What I really want is to be able to start/stop/status the server from my
> normal account the way I always used to by using aliases for the long
> command lines of "su -c 'pg_ctl start/stop...' postgres".

Write a little C program that exec's pg_ctl with the appropriate
arguments, make it setuid 'postgres'?

-Doug
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