Re: initdb recommendations

On 2019-07-13 18:58, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
>>> The default client authentication setup is such that users can connect
>>> over the Unix-domain socket to the same database user name as their
>>> operating system user names (on operating systems that support this,
>>> which are most modern Unix-like systems, but not Windows) and
>>> otherwise with a password. To assign a password to the initial
>>> database superuser, use one of initdb's -W, --pwprompt or -- pwfile
>>> options.
>>
>> Do you have a suggestion for where to put this and exactly how to phrase
>> this?
>>
>> I think the initdb reference page would be more appropriate than
>> runtime.sgml.
> 
> Yes initdb.sgml seems more suitable.  I was thinking something very
> similar to your note, maybe like (also attached if my MUA ruins it):

Pushed with that note.  Thanks.

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