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From: mike@raven.TELCOM.TEK.COM (Mike Ewan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Which RDBMS need setUID root?  Informix?
Keywords: Unix, Security
Message-ID: <1510@raven.TELCOM.TEK.COM>
Date: 22 Nov 89 17:54:57 GMT
References: <6006@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: mike@raven.USS.TEK.COM (Mike Ewan)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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In article <6006@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs) writes:
>We're trying to pick an RDBMS to do applications in a secure computer
>environment, so we need to find one that doesn't use setUID root.
>SetUID to some specific user is ok, but root is out.


As far as I know Ingres from Relational Technologies does not use setuid
root binaries.  There are some setuid rtingres applications, but the 
rtingres user id can be anything.

Mike
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