From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Hugh Esco <hesco@greens.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Problems invoking psql. Help please.
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 02:13:17 -0500
Message-ID: <29178.1037776397@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20021120015333.04220570@petra.cagreens.org>
References: <5.1.0.14.0.20021120015333.04220570@petra.cagreens.org>
Hugh Esco <hesco@greens.org> writes:
>> biko:/usr/bin# ls -al | grep psql
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 10 16:24 psql -> pg_wrapper
> This seems to say that Other users, like postgres, should be able to
> execute it. I'm confused, here.
The permissions attached to a symbolic link are meaningless, in all Unix
variants I've dealt with. You need to look at the permissions of the
linked-to object (here, pg_wrapper) instead...
regards, tom lane
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