On 2013-05-10, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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 roo
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
"Sebastian P. Luque" writes:
> With peer authentication, one can only login as postgres from a local
> connection. I'm not sure what password the postgres user was set up in
> the OS, however, I assigned one to it (the same as for the PostgreSQL
> user). I've read somewhere that the postgres OS