Re: In what situations do you use -U of initdb? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ray Stell
Subject Re: In what situations do you use -U of initdb?
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Msg-id F28C9942-1FDA-4641-896A-3ED5B62ADBFD@vt.edu
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In response to In what situations do you use -U of initdb?  ("Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>)
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On May 13, 2013, at 12:20 AM, Tsunakawa, Takayuki wrote:

> I'm not sure whether there are any situations where the DBAs need to use different username/password pairs for the OS
userwho starts/stops the database server, and the database superuser. 

I was thinking obscurity might be a good feature for some servers.  In the case of a brute force login attack, the
attackerwould need to figure out the username.   If the default is taken, the attacker would be less hindered. 

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