From: Torsten Neuer <tneuer@inwise.de>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] getting "fe_setauthsvc: invalid name" error
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 07:11:19 +0200
Message-ID: <98091607220200.18564@Nicole> (raw)
References: <35FEED4B.643ACD6@midwestonline.com>
Clint wrote:
>
>I think you're right, Tom. If I run the program on my Linux box as a
>different user, I get the same error. Now, how do I set the username
>from C/C++?? I can't figure it out from the docs ...
>
At the first glance I would suggest you either do a chown(1) on
the program binary so that is executes as the correct user or you
have a set*id(2) call somewhere in the program source.
However, you should take care with that as this can result in a
security leak in your system.
Torsten
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