Re: Minimising windows installer password confusion

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>> Oh, I certainly wouldn't do it without *informing* and verifying it
>>> with the user.
>>
>> That'll add additional steps for all users, and likely confuse the
>> novices even more.
>
> The real issue here is that it's nuts to tell the user "please enter
> either a new password or the password for the account that already
> exists, but I'm not telling you which one".

That's a good point.

> What we need is to display a different dialogue based on the situation.
>
> If the account already exists, we should say "Please enter the
> password for the existing postgres account.  If you do not know the
> password, you can reset it using the Windows control panel."
>
> But if it doesn't already exist, we should say "The installer will
> create a postgres account on this machine.  Please enter a password
> for the new account."
>
> If we can do that, all of these problems will go away.

Yeah - that'll require some additional code to check if the account
exists, but we can probably copy/paste that from the existing utility
that creates the account (or better yet, refactor it to allow us to
check or check & create as it does now).

Ashesh/Sachin/Dharam - do you see any potential issues with that?

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