Re: Spoofing as the postmaster

On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 04:43:54PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> <snip> use of
> postmasters running under different userids for another.

This is specifically allowed and I mentioned it in the email you
responded to, so I don't understand why you think it's not possible.

Usage: /usr/bin/pg_createcluster [options] <version> <cluster name>

Options: -u <uid>      cluster owner and superuser (default: 'postgres') -g <gid>      group for data files (default:
primarygroup of owner) -d <dir>      data directory (default:               /var/lib/postgresql/<version>/<cluster
name>)-s <dir>      socket directory (default: /var/run/postgresql for clusters               owned by 'postgres', /tmp
forother clusters) -l <dir>      path to desired log file (default:
/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-<version>-<cluster>.log)--locale <encoding>               set cluster locale (default:
inheritfrom environment) --lc-collate/ctype/messages/monetary/numeric/time <locale>               like --locale, but
onlyset for a particular category -e <encoding> Default encoding (default: derived from locale) -p <port>     port
number(default: next free port starting from 5432) --start       start the cluster after creating it --start-conf
auto|manual|disabled              Set automatic startup behaviour in start.conf (default: 'auto') 

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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