Re: Using a database as backend for Nessus (current state and volunteering for development)

> I fear you have been the victim of FUD.  "root" means nothing to 
> postgres data other than the fact that "root" can do pretty much what 
> root wants on a filesystem.
> 
> Postgres does not use unix username/password mapping thus "root" is not 
> root within postgres.   The postgres database owner is the all powerful 
> user..again, inside the database.  There is no correlation to 
> /etc/password and the pg_users table unless you distinctly and 
> intentionally create it.

Nah...am aware of the difference between postgres superuser and
real root. But obviously I seem to remember things wrong. I
seemed to have recalled that I was unable to do a "createuser root"
as postgres user to set up root for db access.  But when I tried
it now, it worked like a charm. So obviously I had my facts
wrong on that one.