Re: Running PostGre on DVD

On Tuesday 15 November 2005 12:29 am, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> Why do you need to run PostgreSQL as admin? There shouldn't be any need
> for this.

Actually I've run into a scenario where this was needed. I'm not a Windows
expert, so there might be some way to get around this:

I have a localadmin account on the workstation(which is a member of a domain).
As this localadmin(with full local administrative privileges) I created a
local user "postgres" to run PostgreSQL as. The problem was that the policy
for the domain the machine was a member of(which obviously overrides local
settings) prevented this new local user to have "local login" privileges.
Therefore I couldn't create a user to run the postmaster as. I was "stuck"
with my admin-user, which I was not able to start PG as. This was quite
frustrating as I really wanted to install Tomcat+PG to run a demo-webapp for
a customer on one of their machines. There really should be an option for
"Yes, I really want to run PG as a user with Administrator-privileges on
Windows. I promiss not to bug -hacker about any potential security-problems I
might experience".

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