On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 06:14:23PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > The benefit would be that PostgreSQL would be "secure by default". Which > we are *not* today.
To achieve the "secure by default" feature that you want (and I like the scare-quotes -- I agree with those that think this adds no real security, but I think you're right to worry about the perception angle in this case), why not have a ./configure option that sets the default trust level for the build? The option could default to something "secure", but experienced users' build scripts would only have to be altered to include --default-authentication="trust" or something like that. Using this approach, packagers can also continue to do what they want. A -- Andrew Sullivan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] However important originality may be in some fields, restraint and adherence to procedure emerge as the more significant virtues in a great many others. --Alain de Botton ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly