From: Maria L. Wilson <Maria.L.Wilson-1@nasa.gov>
To: jd@commandprompt.com <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Wilson, Maria Louise (LARC-E301)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS] <m.l.wilson@nasa.gov>
Cc: Plugge, Joe R. <JRPlugge@west.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: postgres database user account
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:13:17 -0400
Message-ID: <4C2BA55D.9000700@nasa.gov> (raw)
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and what would be those "extremely specific purposes"?
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 16:02 -0400, Maria L. Wilson wrote:
>
>> ok - thanks that makes sense....
>>
>> so what about the operating system account that is different? What we
>> are planning on doing with the OS acct (postgres) is only allowing users
>> sudo ability to this account. Nobody should be able to directly log
>> into it. Do you think that will cause problems?
>>
>
> You should treat the postgres account like root. In reality nobody
> should be logging in as postgres on the OS except for extremely specific
> purposes.
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
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