Re: Installation on Windows XP Home

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Daniel Schuchardt <daniel_schuchardt(at)web(dot)de>
Cc: cadic(dot)christophe(at)wanadoo(dot)fr, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Installation on Windows XP Home
Date: 2004-09-09 15:42:57
Message-ID: 200409091542.i89Fgvw17522@candle.pha.pa.us
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Or use pginstaller that does it all for you, I think.

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Daniel Schuchardt wrote:
> Christophe CADIC schrieb:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > In the current win32 release, it is necessary to create a specific
> > user account to install database.
> > On windows XP Home, it is not possible to create this type of account
> > (Also Administrator or Limited User accounts are availables).
> >
> Hi Christophe,
>
> that's not true.
>
> here an example from my Setup (Created and tested on Windows XP-Home ,
> working on all Windows >=2000):
>
> ExecWait 'net user postgres $AdminPassw /Add'
> WriteRegStr HKLM 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
> Manager\Environment\' 'PGDATA' '$INSTDIRPG/postgres/db'
> ExecWait '$INSTDIRPG\postgres\editrights -u postgres -a SeServiceLogonRight'
> ExecWait '$INSTDIRPG\postgres\runasp /domain:%COMPUTERNAME%
> /user:postgres /password:$AdminPassw
> /command:"$INSTDIRPG\postgres\bin\initdb -D $INSTDIRPG/postgres/db -L
> $INSTDIRPG/postgres/share --locale=C" /wait'
>
> user add is windows - standard.
> editrights is a cygwin exe. you only need to have this exe and
> cygwin1.dll to run this exe
> runasp is a commercial tool like runas that is able to handle user
> passwords in a script (it will not prompt for a password like runas); i
> don't like it but thats the only tool i found :-(
>
> see also
>
> http://www.hagander.net/pgsql/win32snap/
>
> for details
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
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