Re: Starting postmaster in rc.local/during bootup

On 3 Dec 2002 at 7:45, Chris Boget wrote:

> But as far as I can tell, PG doesn't have the --user option.  Is
> there some way like the above that I can start PG w/o giving
> user postgres a shell?

I don't know exactly but what happens if you specify something like /bin/true 
as shell? Does that work? 

If it does, it might be enough from security POV.

Bye
 Shridhar

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