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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2004-10-22 00:24:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2004-10-22 00:24:33 +0000 |
| commit | 0b83c1f272165716d9c30911fbeab5dddca3ab18 (patch) | |
| tree | 2024c524fa84b07e763167a39869efa2fc9c4268 /src/tutorial/beard.c | |
| parent | d9c1e5e1c253996aa9d8d020515b6fbaeaa4dc27 (diff) | |
Prevent pg_ctl from being run as root. Since it uses configuration files
owned by postgres, doing "pg_ctl start" as root could allow a privilege
escalation attack, as pointed out by iDEFENSE. Of course the postmaster would
fail, but we ought to fail a little sooner to protect sysadmins unfamiliar
with Postgres. The chosen fix is to disable root use of pg_ctl in all cases,
just to be confident there are no other holes.
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