"Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I would like to add capability to initdb to accept the >>password for the >>> superuser account at invocation. Right now, I can use >>--pwprompt or -W >>> to have it ask for a password. But for the win32 GUI >>installed I'd like >>> to ask for the password in the installer, and pass it to initdb. >>> Considering how it's done in different places, what's the >>preferred way >>> to do this? Commandline parameter? Environment variable? Other (what >>> would that be?) >> >>There's a reason why it's done that way, which is that the others are >>all insecure. At least on some Unixen. > > Other binaries accept the password as an environment variable. Are you > saying that it's secure to pass it as environment variable to > psql/pgdump/etc but not to initdb? If so, care to enlighten me as to why > this is different (I'm clearly not seeing why..)?
The environment variable is there for backward compatibility, but it's deprecated. There's no reason to enable that functionality in new code. -Doug ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
