Tom Lane said: > "Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I would like to add capability to initdb to accept the password for >> the superuser account at invocation. Right now, I can use --pwprompt >> or -W to have it ask for a password. But for the win32 GUI installed >> I'd like to ask for the password in the installer, and pass it to >> initdb. Considering how it's done in different places, what's the >> preferred way to do this? Commandline parameter? Environment variable? >> Other (what would that be?) > > There's a reason why it's done that way, which is that the others are > all insecure. At least on some Unixen. >
I think a parameter to have initdb read the password from a file ought to be safe enough. Mark it as one of the less used options - it's really only of significant benefit for installers, I should think. cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
