On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>> Please provide a password for the database superuser (${superaccount})
>> and service account (${serviceaccount}). If the service account
>> already exists in Windows, you must enter the current password for the
>> account. If the account does not exist, it will be created when you
>> click 'Next'.
>
> I think that's REALLY confusing. =A0It seems to me that asking for a
> password which might be used either to log into an existing account or
> to set the password for an account that's about to be created is not
> very user-friendly at all. =A0And we get questions about it here
> regularly. =A0Why not:
>
> If (account exists)
> =A0prompt user to log into account
> else
> =A0tell user account will be created, ask for account pw
> prompt user for db superuser pw
Because without additional text, the user still doesn't know that
they're also setting the superuser password for the cluster.
--=20
Dave Page
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