Decibel! wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:02:49AM +0100, Dave Page wrote: >> Decibel! wrote: >>> Why does the windows installer require a password for the superuser >>> account, since it's perfectly legitimate not to have a password on that >>> account? I could see perhaps producing a warning, but making this a hard >>> requirement seems like overkill. >> Security out of the box. There are few, if any good reasons not to have >> a password on the account, and if you really want to remove it, you can >> do so in psql or pgAdmin. > > Is there something insecure about using ident sameuser for localhost > authentication on Windows?
Windows doesn't have ident (though there are 3rd party products). Regards Dave ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
