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Nice article.

> Now we have to wait for an administrator to “su – postgres”. Likely? Eh.

This isn't that unlikely. On Debian/Ubuntu, postgres is the database super user and doesn't have a password set by default so the way to administer PostgreSQL is to su to postgres and then run psql/createdb/etc (it relies on local ident authentication).



Exactly, I have done this today!


Yes, it's not unlikely at all. It's a timebomb just waiting to explode.




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