Re: In what situations do you use -U of initdb?

From: Ray Stell <stellr(at)vt(dot)edu>
To: "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: In what situations do you use -U of initdb?
Date: 2013-05-13 13:38:19
Message-ID: F28C9942-1FDA-4641-896A-3ED5B62ADBFD@vt.edu
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On May 13, 2013, at 12:20 AM, Tsunakawa, Takayuki wrote:

> I'm not sure whether there are any situations where the DBAs need to use different username/password pairs for the OS user who starts/stops the database server, and the database superuser.

I was thinking obscurity might be a good feature for some servers. In the case of a brute force login attack, the attacker would need to figure out the username. If the default is taken, the attacker would be less hindered.

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