Gary Horton <Gary.Horton@xxxxxxx> writes: > We're migrating from 7.3.4 to 8.1.0, and I'm seeing different behavior > with the createuser command. What we are wanting is to streamline our > product installs, to require minimal user interaction, so we basically > embed the password like this in our bourne-shell wrapper script: > $POSTGRESQL_HOME/bin/createuser -d -P $PGUSER <<END > $PGPASSWORD We changed all the clients some time ago to insist on getting passwords from /dev/tty not stdin. There was a security argument for it, I think, but I don't recall the reasoning exactly. regards, tom lane
