Re: heads up -- subtle change of behavior of new initdb

The shell script said this:
       $ECHO_N "fixing permissions on existing directory $PGDATA... 
"$ECHO_C       chmod go-rwx "$PGDATA" || exit_nicely

There's no more rationale than that for this patch.

I'm inclined to agree with you, though.

cheers

andrew


Greg Stark wrote:

>>+         if (!chmod(pg_data,0700))
>>    
>>
>
>Out of curiosity, what was the rationale for using 0700? I know it was a pain
>for me when I had a script to monitor the tmp usage. Surely read access to
>privileged users isn't really a problem? I'm thinking more of loosening the
>paranoia check elsewhere rather than this default.
>
>Wouldn't at least 0750 be safe? That way putting a user in the postgres group
>would grant him access to be able to browse around and read the files in
>pg_data.
>
>Actually I should think 02750 would be better so that the group is inherited
>by subdirectories.
>
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