On Oct 18, 2004, at 1:09 AM, Joel wrote:
> There is no need to give either the postgres user or root a password,
> much less a shell or a login directory, if you use sudo.
>
>
> (And I have no idea why Apple would suggest using the system
> preferences
> user pane to add the postgres user unless they are intentionally
> dumbing
> it down. It works, but then you have OS login enabled for the
> "postgres"
> user.)
Because some Mac users prefer to use the Finder to manipulate files
rather than the Terminal :).
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL
