From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: dx k9 <bitsandbytes88@hotmail.com>
Cc: posgres support <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: initdb
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:47:14 -0500
Message-ID: <4640.1231894034@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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dx k9 <bitsandbytes88@hotmail.com> writes:
> I just tried initdb with the -A pam option and no -W. As expected, I
> can't log into the instance. There is a MD5 hash and postgres still
> defaults to password authentication even though I did not use the -W.
> Is this a bug?
No. initdb is not intended to set up any possible authorization
configuration for you; it only handles two or three common cases.
Feel free to adjust the configuration files afterward.
regards, tom lane
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