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. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general