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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2004-10-22 00:24:33 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2004-10-22 00:24:33 +0000
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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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