From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Murray Cumming <murrayc@murrayc.com>
Cc: 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 12:46:54 -0300
Message-ID: <20061219154654.GA3036@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
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Murray Cumming wrote:
> 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.
Sure.
> > 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.
Sure, initdb accepts the -U parameter to specify the user and you can
put the password in a temp file and give it to initdb with --pwfile.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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