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Re: systemd & postgresql - flooding system log



Am 15.07.2017 um 00:07 schrieb Don Armstrong:
> This plugin is horribly designed, and runs su - $DBUSER -c [...] for its
> functioning.

Indeed.

> It should instead just su $DBUSER -c [...]; or better yet, not actually
> su to the database user, and instead run as a user which only has the
> ability to read the appropriate tables and cannot also write to.

There is an alternative utility called runuser which is more suitable
for such cases.
It uses a different pam config and doesn't start a systemd logind session.

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