Magnus Hagander wrote: > This is the very reason --pwfile was added. It's not just a win32 > fix, it's a "any packager that needs to run without interactivity" > fix. Yes, you can stick a blank password in there, but again, this is > a choice and not a default in that case.
No, that's not what it was added for. It was added for catering to packaging mechanisms that have other interfaces for interactivity. But just hardcoding a default password into a package gains no security at all. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
