"Dan The Man" <bitsandbytes88@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm running postgres on a Linux server SuSE SLES. When I run postgresql > 8.0.3, I get /tmp/.s.PGSQLl.5432 socket open with group and owner > permissions. The group permissions are the default group of the postgres > account and the owner is postgres. If I want to start postgres with a > non-default group called db-admins or something is that an option? See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/runtime-config.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-CONNECTION particularly unix_socket_group and unix_socket_permissions. regards, tom lane