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

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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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