Re: setuid(geteuid());?

Tom Lane writes:

> I said:
> > On machines that have setreuid(), or even better setresuid(), we could
> > force the ruid (and suid for good measure) to match euid.  Otherwise we
> > probably should refuse to start unless getuid matches geteuid.
>
> But on third thought, it's not worth the trouble of adding two more
> configure tests to support a configuration that I doubt anyone uses
> anyway (ie, setuid postgres executable).  Let's just remove the setuid()
> and add a check for getuid() == geteuid() in main.c.
>
> Peter, unless you've already started in on this, I can take care of it
> --- I see a couple of other nits I want to fix in those two files, too.

Please do.  I just ran across it for the session authorization deal, which
would be easy to merge.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter