Re: I've compiled and installed -- what next?

"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Rob Tanner wrote:
>> ... I normally live in a MySql world and the first thing I do after
>> installing the DBMS is set the "root" or superuser password. The PDF
>> documentation talks about the superuser and database owner(s). How do I
>> define the superuser and then secure that user with a password?

> The default superuser for PostgreSQL is going to be the linux/unix user
> that you used the command initdb with. By default when you initdb in
> PostgreSQL (when you compile from source) it will allow any unix user to
> connect. Thus you can do this:

IIRC, initdb has some options to set the initial password and also to
make the initial authentication mode not be "trust". Good things to
use if you are on a system with other users you don't trust.

You'll want to at least skim the manual's discussion of client
authentication pretty soon. Password-based auth is not necessarily
the best choice.

regards, tom lane