From: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: pg_id and pg_encoding |
Date: | 2003-09-07 16:22:22 |
Message-ID: | 3F5B5B3E.1080401@pse-consulting.de |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>We'll also need to decide the Windows equivalent of the 'don't run as
>>root' rule - or even if we want to enforce it at all, given that it
>>appears to be very common practice on Windows to run all services as a
>>user with Administrator privileges.
>>
>>
>
>I assume we will relax that for Win32. I don't think non-Administrators
>have the same isolation on Win32 as non-root users have on Unix.
>
>
While it's best practice for *ix to work as non-root, many windows users
will be administrator-equivalent. The "Local System account" commonly
used to run services is even more privileged than the local admin. So
the restriction to non-admins won't make too much sense.
Regards,
Andreas
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