Re: pgsql: Adjust user-facing documentation to explain why we don't check

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> I think the only thing you could do would be to specify that the user
>> and only the user have full control over the file. *Any* other ACL
>> entries, deny or allow, are not allowed. Access via a group is not
>> allowed.
>>
>
>
> Are these conditions true of the default location? If not, then either
> this list is too restrictive or the comment we just committed is wrong
> even for that location.

No, as Magnus has pointed out there are almost certainly adminstrator
and system entries in the default ACL - and we don't necessarily know
the local installation well enough to be able to tell if an insecure
entry has been added.

> I think the permissions on the default are probably good enough, so we
> should look for a similar ACL.

We could make that assumption in the the default location, and require a
strict ACL elsewhere.

Regards, Dave.