| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Mark Cave-Ayland <m(dot)cave-ayland(at)webbased(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | "'Magnus Hagander'" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "'Andrew Dunstan'" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Run-as-admin warning for win32 |
| Date: | 2004-05-04 16:05:04 |
| Message-ID: | 200405041605.i44G54r09894@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Just listening in on this thread.... I would be inclined to agree that
> the Win32 PostgeSQL should run under its own user given the history of
> Windows security. FWIW I know that Installshield (one of the most
> popular installers) and the default settings for MSI mean that only
> administrators can install software; so I would argue that there is no
> reason why the PostgreSQL installer also shouldn't require administrator
> privilege to run, and therefore create the postgres user account for us.
Yea, we could ask them for a username, supply a default, then if the
username doesn't exist, ask if they want to create it.
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