Re: Password requirement in windows installer - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Decibel!
Subject Re: Password requirement in windows installer
Date
Msg-id 20070831153918.GV38801@decibel.org
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In response to Re: Password requirement in windows installer  (Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: Password requirement in windows installer  (Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>)
Re: Password requirement in windows installer  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:02:49AM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> Decibel! wrote:
> > Why does the windows installer require a password for the superuser
> > account, since it's perfectly legitimate not to have a password on that
> > account? I could see perhaps producing a warning, but making this a hard
> > requirement seems like overkill.
>
> Security out of the box. There are few, if any good reasons not to have
> a password on the account, and if you really want to remove it, you can
> do so in psql or pgAdmin.

Is there something insecure about using ident sameuser for localhost
authentication on Windows?
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