Re: R?f. : RE: Running PostGre on DVD

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 10:15:01PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Ah, now we are making progress. If there was a way to give up
> > file access permissions so you could no longer write files
> > to, say, the Windows System directory, this would go a long
> > way to solving the issue. Currently, if the Postmaster runs
> > as admin, anyone with access to the database could use COPY
> > to read and write any file the backend can access.
>
> Getting rid of the admin and powerusers group should do that, I think.

Look at pgwin32_is_admin(), it just checks if the user is member of one
of those two groups. I think we have your solution right here...

Have a nice day,
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