Re: Re: few more securiry questions :-)

Chris Albertson writes:

> > > 2.Why the authentication system is not integrated in
> > > the system databases of pgSQL,like in MySQL for
> > > example?
> >
> > Because there's a bootstrapping problem: You would have to connect to the
> > database to change the authentication settings, but in order to connect
> > you have to be authenticated.
>
> That's not to hard to fix.  You just have initdb create system catalogs
> with a the required settings.

But when you accidentally hose things up then you have no way to get in a
repair things. It also looks like a race condition waiting to happen.

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