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. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
