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Re: initdb recommendations

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2019-07-22T17:40:42Z
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Hi,

On 2019-07-22 13:02:13 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> There are a few things we could do. We could force trust auth, or we
> could add an ident map that allowed $USER to login as buildfarm. Finding
> all the places we would need to fix that could be a fun project ...

Perhaps we could actually do so automatically when the initdb invoking
user isn't the same as the OS user? Imo that'd be generally quite
useful, and not just for the regression tets.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. initdb: Change authentication defaults