"Bob Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My systems admin says that he needs to have use of the Postgres user
> without a password.  His Debian package manager requires this.  
> He tells me that he can lock down that user on the system so that there
> are no security concerns.  

Why can't he put his password in ~/.pgpass?

Or if you don't like that, see if you can set up to let him in with
IDENT.  But using TRUST on a multi-user machine is just asking for
trouble.

> Also, my method for creating another superuser is to update the
> pg_shadow files "usesuper" field to 't'.

The CREATEUSER option to CREATE/ALTER USER is the same thing.

                        regards, tom lane

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