On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:57, Scott Marlowe <scott.marl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 05:17, John T. Dow <j...@johntdow.com> wrote: >>> Apparently the problem boils down to this question: how did some of the >>> files get set to be system and read only? >> >> Yes. That would be very interesting to know. PostgreSQL never >> (intentionally) sets these flags, so they must've come from something >> else. > > Being a non-privaledged account, does the postgres user even have the > power to do that?
Yes, IIRC any user that has write permissions on a file can set the attributes, including readonly and system. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
