Tom Lane escribió: > It's fairly common for distro-supplied packages to create a postgres > OS user but not assign it any password. In that state, the only way to > become postgres is to "su" to it from root, or perhaps from a sudoer > account with root-equivalent privileges. While that might be okay > for machines with just one person administering everything, I can't > say that I think it's recommendable practice in general: you don't > want to have to give somebody root to let them admin the database. > Better to give the postgres user a password.
Of course, it's also possible to give multiple people sudo-to-postgres capability without giving them sudo-to-root. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
