Kevin Bullock wrote:
My thoughts on this thread:
1. Sending a DBA username and password over a cleartext channel is bad. Users would do it without reading warnings if the feature is available, and their passwords would get out. -1 to requiring a DBA password via Web form.
Let's avoid submitting -1 or +1 on things that haven't even been proposed. Thats just going to attract more mindless votes and discussion and lead the conversation to nowhereland. You are the first person to mention *requiring* a DBA password. Later in this post you approve of optionally letting the installer create a DB. Would be more productive to start the post with this opinion. Why start so negative? I think this is just the urge to debate, but IMO is not so helpful on a 1000 person mailing list such as this. I will mellow out now.