From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@qwest.net>
To: Davide Negri <davide.negri@zeropiu.it>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Question on the 8.0Beta Version
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:06:21 -0600
Message-ID: <1098579981.21035.112.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041022070342.534EE36CF1@piragna.zeropiu.it>
References: <20041022070342.534EE36CF1@piragna.zeropiu.it>
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 00:59, Davide Negri wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i have installed postgres 8.0 beta3 as a program on my pc on windows
> xp. I have read on the installation note file that postgres server
> will not run with administrative permissions. I have read on your
> forum that this happened because i have installed the beta version: is
> it true that this happen only with the beta version? When will you
> plan to release the production version?
I think you may have misunderstood the docs. PostgreSQL doesn't run
under any account that has machine admin / root privelages because that
makes any small security issue in postgresql into a root level exploit,
and that's a bad thing.
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