Re: Incorrect password using pg_ctl

Matthew Stanfield <matthew@propertyknowledge.com> writes:

> What I really want is to be able to start/stop/status the server from my
> normal account the way I always used to by using aliases for the long
> command lines of "su -c 'pg_ctl start/stop...' postgres".

Write a little C program that exec's pg_ctl with the appropriate
arguments, make it setuid 'postgres'?

-Doug
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