Hello I'm an Italian student of computer science at University of Rome "La Sapienza". I've to analyze some daemons which run under root privileges with a tool developed by my departement. This tool intercepts critical syscalls, like Execve, and blocks illegal invocation of that primitives (E.g. Execve("/bin/sh")) performed by a daemon which runs under root privileges. This approach blocks buffer overflow attacks before they can complete (or I hope so). Now, the problem is that postgres doesn' t run under root privileges and that the tool intercepts only the syscalls invoked by a process with root privileges. Is possible to force postgres to run under root privileges? How can be done? I know my request is anomalous but i've to do this for my laboratory project course. I should be very grateful if you'll answer as soon as possible. Thank you.
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