Re: PgSQL not as Administrator - probs on w

Andreas Pflug <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Darko Prenosil wrote:

>> Want to limit the success of native? Surefire way to do it.
>>
>>I am not in the community and don't want my first comment to be bitching,
>>but maybe you can bring that up for me?
>>    
>>
>
>It seems that the 'linux' way 'scares' some win users :-(
>  
>

In the win32 user's sight, the current implementation is very dogmatic. 
While there *has* to be some dogmatism about security, IMHO in the case 
of account to run pgsql on this is up to the administrator, not us. We 
should recommend using a separate user, support it in the installer by 
default as comfortable as possible, but enforcing it is regarded as 
non-native and thus suspicious in the win32 world.

Running as admin is so common for Windows, you'd never see complaints 
about that aspect. Even programs *requiring* admin rights are widely 
accepted (with some minor grumbling).

It's another universe...

Regards,
Andreas



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