This is my -- hopefully sufficiently portable -- attempt at cleaning out

initdb. No more obscure dependencies on environment variables or paths.
It
now finds the templates and the right postgres itself (with cmd line
options as fallback). It also no longer depends on $USER (su safe), and
doesn't advertise that --username allows you to install the db as a
different user, since that doesn't work anyway. Also, recovery and
cleanup
on all errors. Consistent options, clearer documentation.

Please take a look at this and adopt it if you feel it's safe enough. I
have simulated all the stupid circumstances I could think of, but you
never know with shell scripts.

Oh yeah, you can give the postgres user a default password now.

--
Peter Eisentraut                  Sernanders väg 10:115

src/include/catalog/pg_shadow.h

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $Id: pg_shadow.h,v 1.4 1999/02/13 23:21:14 momjian Exp $
+ * $Id: pg_shadow.h,v 1.5 1999/12/17 01:05:31 momjian Exp $
  *
  * NOTES
  *	  the genbki.sh script reads this file and generates .bki
@@ -67,39 +67,11 @@ typedef FormData_pg_shadow *Form_pg_shadow;
 
 /* ----------------
  *		initial contents of pg_shadow
+ *
+ * The uppercase quantities will be replaced at initdb time with
+ * user choices.
  * ----------------
  */
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( postgres PGUID t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-
-BKI_BEGIN
-#ifdef ALLOW_PG_GROUP
-BKI_END
-
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( mike 799 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( mao 1806 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( hellers 1089 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( joey 5209 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( jolly 5443 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( sunita 6559 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( paxson 3029 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( marc 2435 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( jiangwu 6124 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( aoki 2360 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( avi 31080 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( kristin 1123 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( andrew 5229 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( nobuko 5493 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( hartzell 6676 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( devine 6724 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( boris 6396 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( sklower 354 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( marcel 31113 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( ginger 3692 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( woodruff 31026 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-DATA(insert OID = 0 ( searcher 8261 t t t t _null_ 2116994400 ));
-
-BKI_BEGIN
-#endif	 /* ALLOW_PG_GROUP */
-BKI_END
+DATA(insert OID = 0 ( POSTGRES PGUID t t t t PASSWORD _null_ ));
 
 #endif	 /* PG_SHADOW_H */