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Prevent pg_ctl from being run as root. Since it uses configuration files
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:24:27 +0000 (00:24 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:24:27 +0000 (00:24 +0000)
commit5b7e88dbe0ad700e2994989c7b01f08f9e6b31d4
tree20ae9130b73082eb85b2a5803361f1364eece770
parent25d1755a29ec77facafff42920403df13f218c96
Prevent pg_ctl from being run as root.  Since it uses configuration files
owned by postgres, doing "pg_ctl start" as root could allow a privilege
escalation attack, as pointed out by iDEFENSE.  Of course the postmaster would
fail, but we ought to fail a little sooner to protect sysadmins unfamiliar
with Postgres.  The chosen fix is to disable root use of pg_ctl in all cases,
just to be confident there are no other holes.
src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.sh