Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Goulet, Dick") wrote: > You may well be on the development team, but you are wrong for > one very important reason. If the Postgresql executables are owned by > root they execute with the priviledges of root.
Methinks you may not understand Unix permissions as well as you need to. Binaries only execute with the privileges of root if: a) They are being run by the root user, or b) They are owned by root and have the "setuid" bit set. -- "cbbrowne","@","gmail.com" http://cbbrowne.com/info/linux.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #75. "I will instruct my Legions of Terror to attack the hero en masse, instead of standing around waiting while members break off and attack one or two at a time." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly