Hello everyone,

I recently came up with a question regarding the installation of an
SQL-server on my netbsd-machine.

I now have installed the server and am reading my way through the
documentation. PostgreSQL's administration guide recommends running postmaster as user
pgsql. 
How do I make this work? Set the suid-bit of the postmaster-binary and chown
it to pgsql?

Or is there some syntax to make the system start services as non-privileged
users?
I want - of course - the SQL-server to be started automatically at
system-startup, so logging in to the netbsd-machine, su'ing to pgsql and manually
running postmaster is *not* an option... =)

Or do I put something like
"su - pgsql -c /usr/pkg/bin/postmaster"
in my startup files? This seems to lack some elegance, though... 

I'm running NetBSD 1.6.1 on a i386 machine, if that's important...

Thank you very much,

Kind regards,

Benjamin Walkenhorst


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