Re: Installing PostgreSQL as "postgress" versus "root" Debate!

Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when DGoulet@vicr.com ("Goulet, Dick") wrote:
>     You may well be on the development team, but you are wrong for
> one very important reason.  If the Postgresql executables are owned by
> root they execute with the priviledges of root.

Methinks you may not understand Unix permissions as well as you need
to.

Binaries only execute with the privileges of root if:
 a) They are being run by the root user, or
 b) They are owned by root and have the "setuid" bit set.
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