Dave Best wrote:
> Never, ever run anything under root if at all possible. Its just
> baddddd..... Trust the user? Your joking right? :) I've been around too
> many Lusers (as my friend would say) to trust any of em.
not to mention that we also need to distrust the postgresql developers
:-) should the postgresql code contained a nasty bug (say something that
could overwrite a random file on the filesystem), then running the
postgresql daemon as non-root user would limit the damage that can be done.
--
dave
