Re: Spoofing as the postmaster - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Spoofing as the postmaster
Date
Msg-id 16379.1198449722@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Spoofing as the postmaster  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 04:43:54PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> <snip> use of
>> postmasters running under different userids for another.

> This is specifically allowed and I mentioned it in the email you
> responded to, so I don't understand why you think it's not possible.

>   -s <dir>      socket directory (default: /var/run/postgresql for clusters
>                 owned by 'postgres', /tmp for other clusters)

Egad.  Is it not apparent to you what a bad idea that is?
        regards, tom lane


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