Hi Russel!
Russell Coker [2005-11-13 23:23 +1100]:
> When started from an administrator terminal the postgresql daemon inherits the
> administrator's terminal as the controlling tty. This means that the daemon
> if
> compromised could be used to attack the administrator by injecting terminal
> input.
Thanks for your report. I see that keeping tty descriptors open is a
problem. However, how can I check this? I started a cluster from the
command line ('pg_ctlcluster 8.1 main start') and used 'lsof' to get
the open fds, which only yields:
postmaste 7567 postgres 0r CHR 1,3 601 /dev/null
No tty or pty whatsoever. How did you manage to leave a tty open? Or
is lsof not an appropriate way to check for open ttys? (It works fine
for other programs, like bash).
Thanks,
Martin
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