From ba60acf17e70ba2330dbd3dba13ba75438307901 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:26:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add documentation about running postmasters in FreeBSD jails (use separate users). --- doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml index 20e63bea75..3c38ff838c 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + Operating System Environment @@ -763,6 +763,18 @@ options "SEMMNS=240" setting kern.ipc.shm_use_phys. + + If running in FreeBSD jails by enabling sysconf's + security.jail.sysvipc_allowed, postmasters + running in different jails should be run by different operating system + users. This improves security because it prevents one jail from + interfering with shared memory or semaphores in another, and it + allows the PostgreSQL IPC cleanup code to function properly. + (In FreeBSD 6.0 and later the IPC cleanup code doesn't properly detect + processes in other jails, preventing the running of postmasters on the + same port in different jails.) + + FreeBSD versions before 4.0 work like NetBSD and