Re: Is "trust" really a good default?

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Is "trust" really a good default?
Date: 2004-07-13 01:46:42
Message-ID: 40F33F02.40706@familyhealth.com.au
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>>No, but none of the others are better. See previous discussions in the
>>archives. I don't think the situation has changed any since the last
>>time we hashed this out.
>
> If they supply a password to initdb, shouldn't we then require a
> password in pg_hba.conf.

This is further to my previous suggestion that we output the encoding
that is being defaulted to.

NEW USERS DO NOT KNOW THAT -W EXISTS!

Even the majority of experienced users don't!

It's a real pain in the butt that stuff like -E and -W aren't required
parameters to initdb.

Chris

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