On 2013-05-10, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 root-equivalent privileges. While that might be okay >> for machines with just one person administering everything, I can't >> say that I think it's recommendable practice in general: you don't >> want to have to give somebody root to let them admin the database. >> Better to give the postgres user a password. > > Of course, it's also possible to give multiple people sudo-to-postgres > capability without giving them sudo-to-root. Or to grant "superuser" to other database user accounts, and leave the postgres user for internal use. -- ⚂⚃ 100% natural -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
