On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>
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> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Craig Sacco <craig.sacco@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The following bug has been logged online:
>>>
>>> Bug reference: =A0 =A0 =A05938
>>> Logged by: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Craig Sacco
>>> Email address: =A0 =A0 =A0craig.sacco@gmail.com
>>> PostgreSQL version: 9.0.3
>>> Operating system: =A0 Microsoft Windows (all variants, 32 and 64 bit)
>>> Description: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0PostgreSQL Installer outputs log file with =
superuser
>>> password in clear text
>>> Details:
>>>
>>> The PostgreSQL installer outputs a log file to the temporary directory
>>> with
>>> the superuser password in clear text. We are deploying PostgreSQL as pa=
rt
>>> of
>>> a commercial product and would like to ensure that the password is not
>>> available to ordinary users.
>>>
>>
>> This has been fixed for the next releases.
>
> For the sake of the archives, it should also be noted that the file is in=
a
> secure directory, much as a .pgpass file would be, so this is generally o=
nly
> an issue for the situation described above, and not when a user installs a
> copy himself.
Updated "one click" installers for 9.0.3 on win32 and win64 and for
8.4.7 on win32 are now available from
http://www.postgresql.org/download/windows
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