Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] How do I activate and change the postgres user's password?

> On Oct 13, Lincoln Yeoh mentioned:
>
> > Then I have problems logging in as ANY user. Couldn't figure out what the
> > default password for the postgres user was. Only after some messing around
> > I found that I could log on as the postgres user with the password \N. Not
> > obvious, at least to me.
>
> There is a todo item for the postgres user to have a password by default.
> I'm not sure though how that would be done. Probably in initdb. (?)

We could enabled it as part of initdb.  Prompt them for it there, and
assign it.  Seems like there should be one on that account espeically.


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