su postgres in logs

[Keith Mastin]

> I have the postgres server installed and not configured.
> One of many such messed up servers.
>
> I'm reading the auth logs and there is a
> su[239]: + console root-postgres line.
> Is this a normal system login from a cron job or something?
> It wasn't me doing this su command.
> I guess this info might be in the
> Postgres Administrator's guide but
> I can't get around to that for some time to come.
>
> There are several lines of  "session opened for user postgres" as well.
> Why is this? Can it just be the server starting up?
>
> I've disabled the postgres startup now anyway.

A lot of programs start as root and then run under the permissions of the
user running them. Nothing to worry about. This is actually a lot more
secure than programs that start as root and run as root.

-- 
Keith
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