On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Craig Ringer
<cr...@postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:

> Really, the installer on Windows needs to stash the password in an
> admin-only-readable registry key, read it from there on install, and test to
> make sure it works. If it does, Pg need not even bother the user with the
> account password at all.

Aside from the fact that such a technique would probably end up on
Bugtraq quicker than I could write the report myself, many people do
need the password for setting up additional services such as pgAgent,
and for actually logging into the database they just installed.

-- 
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise Postgres Company

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