On Tuesday 15 November 2005 02:16 pm, Pollard, Mike wrote: > > I explain myself about running PostGre as admin. > > > > In fact I don't want specifically run PostGre as admin. The problem > > is, on > > > the computers the application including PostGre will run, I'm not sure > > that > > the user won't have any admin or power user rights. Furthermore, I've > > noticed that on certain domains, any user created is automatically > > added > > > to > > a default group having power user rights (that is actually happening > > to > > > me). > > To be honest, the fact that Postgres forces you to run as a non-admin > user has given me nothing but headaches. (yes, I know, the problem is > defaulting everyone to admin rights is the problem. But that's where I > am). I have been kicking around the idea of posting a change to allow > you to run as admin, but in the meanwhile if you can build Postgres on > your machine, the fix is very easy. Go into src/backend/main/main.c and > find the line > > if (pgwin32_is_admin()) > > and change it to > > if (false && pgwin32_is_admin())
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