Re: Is "trust" really a good default? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Is "trust" really a good default?
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Msg-id 200407122011.i6CKBg018849@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Is "trust" really a good default?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
> > Is it really such a good idea to have "trust" authentication enabled for
> > localhost (TCP/IP and Unix sockets) by default?
> 
> 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.

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