Re: BUG #5957: createdb with description and md5 auth forces to provide password twice

Grzegorz Szpetkowski wrote:
>
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference: 5957
> Logged by: Grzegorz Szpetkowski
> Email address: gszpetkowski(at)gmail(dot)com
> PostgreSQL version: 9.0.3
> Operating system: Ubuntu 10.10
> Description: createdb with description and md5 auth forces to provide
> password twice
> Details:
>
> How to reproduce the problem:
>
> 1.Create new role with (encrypted password):
> createuser -SdRP user
> 2.In PostgreSQL 9.0.3 I found pg_hba.conf with local all all ident, so
> change to local all all md5
> 3.Restart/Reload used cluster
> 4.Execute createdb -U user mydb "My DB Description"
>
> Output:
>
> Password:
> Password:
>
> creatdb command prompts password twice and I think it's improper behaviour
> (and documentation is silent about that).

FYI, this will be fixed in Postgres 9.1.

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