On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Robert Haas <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote: >> Please provide a password for the database superuser (${superaccount}) >> and service account (${serviceaccount}). If the service account >> already exists in Windows, you must enter the current password for the >> account. If the account does not exist, it will be created when you >> click 'Next'. > > I think that's REALLY confusing. It seems to me that asking for a > password which might be used either to log into an existing account or > to set the password for an account that's about to be created is not > very user-friendly at all. And we get questions about it here > regularly. Why not: > > If (account exists) > prompt user to log into account > else > tell user account will be created, ask for account pw > prompt user for db superuser pw
Because without additional text, the user still doesn't know that they're also setting the superuser password for the cluster. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
