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@brief the user id to use for the process
--uid uid
The name (identity) of the user the server will run as. If this parameter is not specified, the server will not attempt to change its UID, so that the UID used by the server will be the same as the UID of the user who started the server. If this parameter is specified, then the server will change its UID after opening ports and reading configuration files, but before accepting connections or opening other files (such as recovery files). This is useful when the server must be started with raised privileges (in certain environments) but security considerations require that these privileges be dropped once the server has started work.
Observe that this parameter cannot be used to bypass operating system security. In general, this parameter (and its corresponding relative gid) can lower privileges but not raise them.