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Re: Open 7.3 items

Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>

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From: Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-07-31T19:54:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> Another idea is to change pg_hba.conf to not default to 'trust' but then
> the installing user is going to have to choose a password.

I like this approach.  Set it to password (or md5) on local, and force
the request of a password during initdb.

If for some reason they forget their password, they simply bump it to
trust on local for the 1 minute it takes to change it back.