In response to "arnuld uttre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> I see postgres has 3 password mechanism:
> 
>  'createuser -d -P arnuld'       -- which will ask for the password
> according to P flag used here.
>  'createuser -d -P -W arnuld' -- which will ask for the 2 passwords
> belonging to P and W flags.

In order to create a user, you have to connect as an existing user.
When you use -W, you tell the createuser command to _always_ prompt
for the (existing) password before allowing you to connect, even if
your configuration does not require password authentication.

So, even with the second command, you're still only using 1 password
when you create the account.  I feel that the man page for createuser
explains this pretty well.

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