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authorPeter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>2000-09-06 14:15:31 +0000
committerPeter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>2000-09-06 14:15:31 +0000
commit6dc249610a87aa8b9dcc8baf4e64d2e14d02f548 (patch)
tree6ca1b864625ecf91a2887c8031a9fa91b5f9c5c5 /src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
parentdaf1e3a7026e367d630be3ac34ac0a9e7cf1340f (diff)
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Code cleanup of user name and user id handling in the backend. The current
user is now defined in terms of the user id, the user name is only computed upon request (for display purposes). This is kind of the opposite of the previous state, which would maintain the user name and compute the user id for permission checks. Besides perhaps saving a few cycles (integer vs string), this now creates a single point of attack for changing the user id during a connection, for purposes of "setuid" functions, etc.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c18
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
index 223b5bbe24c..59a42cd915e 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.164 2000/08/30 14:54:22 momjian Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.165 2000/09/06 14:15:19 petere Exp $
*
* NOTES
*
@@ -1635,11 +1635,11 @@ BackendStartup(Port *port)
i;
#ifdef CYR_RECODE
-#define NR_ENVIRONMENT_VBL 6
+#define NR_ENVIRONMENT_VBL 5
char ChTable[80];
#else
-#define NR_ENVIRONMENT_VBL 5
+#define NR_ENVIRONMENT_VBL 4
#endif
static char envEntry[NR_ENVIRONMENT_VBL][2 * ARGV_SIZE];
@@ -1655,19 +1655,17 @@ BackendStartup(Port *port)
putenv(envEntry[0]);
sprintf(envEntry[1], "POSTID=%d", NextBackendTag);
putenv(envEntry[1]);
- sprintf(envEntry[2], "PG_USER=%s", port->user);
+ sprintf(envEntry[2], "PGDATA=%s", DataDir);
putenv(envEntry[2]);
- sprintf(envEntry[3], "PGDATA=%s", DataDir);
+ sprintf(envEntry[3], "IPC_KEY=%d", ipc_key);
putenv(envEntry[3]);
- sprintf(envEntry[4], "IPC_KEY=%d", ipc_key);
- putenv(envEntry[4]);
#ifdef CYR_RECODE
GetCharSetByHost(ChTable, port->raddr.in.sin_addr.s_addr, DataDir);
if (*ChTable != '\0')
{
- sprintf(envEntry[5], "PG_RECODETABLE=%s", ChTable);
- putenv(envEntry[5]);
+ sprintf(envEntry[4], "PG_RECODETABLE=%s", ChTable);
+ putenv(envEntry[4]);
}
#endif
@@ -1931,7 +1929,7 @@ DoBackend(Port *port)
fprintf(stderr, ")\n");
}
- return (PostgresMain(ac, av, real_argc, real_argv));
+ return (PostgresMain(ac, av, real_argc, real_argv, port->user));
}
/*