Re: win32 port

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:01:57PM +0100, nobody wrote:

> The PostgreSQL traditionally refuses to run under root account on Unix (for
> security reasons). On win32 the situation is the same (it will not run if
> run under user belonging to administrator group).
> In my opinion this should not be the case on win32 as developers are likely
> to belong to the administrators group and might like to run the database
> under their account.

Nah, this has been proposed and rejected at least a couple of times
already. The reason is that Postgres does not want to be the next
worm-causing program out there. Sloppy security on the grounds of ease
of use is exactly the reason why Microsoft products are full of security
programs.

There's a reason for refusing to run as root on Unix, and the same
reason holds on Windows. Much more strongly, I might add.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Hay quien adquiere la mala costumbre de ser infeliz" (M. A. Evans)