From: Murray Cumming <murrayc@murrayc.com>
To: Jeroen T. Vermeulen <jtv@xs4all.nl>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Embedding postgresql in my application
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:36:53 +0100
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On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 13:16 +0700, Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:
> f your application
> can run under many different user identities and each should have its
> own
> database user, use "ident sameuser"
I believe that ident authentication requires an additional service such
as gidentd. Well, I think that's been my experience in the past.
> and create a database user for every
> system user when that user first runs the application:
>
> createuser -h "$DBDIR/data" \
> --no-superuser \
> --no-createrole \
> --no-createdb \
> $USERNAME
createuser asks for a password on stdin. Do you know of any way to
specifify an initial superuser and password for a new database cluster
without doing it via stdin? That doesn't seem like a stable API that I
should rely on.
--
Murray Cumming
murrayc@murrayc.com
www.murrayc.com
www.openismus.com
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