Re: Bugtraq: Having Fun With PostgreSQL

Christopher Browne wrote:
> The world rejoiced as jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com ("Joshua D. Drake") wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:

>>> We've debated #1 before, and a lot of repackagers change it, but I
>>> don't really feel a strong urge to change it in the source distro.
>>> As for #2, that's not a bug, it's intended behavior.
>> On #1, the fact that we allow trust as default is embarrassing. It
>> would be just as bad as having the default root password be password
>> on a linux box. We should be using md5 and force passing the password
>> with initdb.
>
> That won't help; that would introduce the "embarrassment" of having a
> known default password.

No it wouldn't unless the packagers set it up to do that. My point is
that when a packager (or source) runs initdb, it would prompt for the
postgres user password. Just like when you create a ssh key or cert etc...

Joshua D. Drake

>
> This is a case where it takes careful thought to grasp whether there
> is a problem or not.
>
> If all we do is to shift the embarrassment around, that's not much
> help.

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