| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: stderr & win32 admin check |
| Date: | 2004-06-15 13:27:32 |
| Message-ID: | 353.1087306052@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> This will prevent PostgreSQL being runable on NT4 by anyone with admin
> privileges, except as a service.
Are we actually supporting NT4? I recall quite a bit of discussion long
ago about which versions of Windows were really reasonable to support,
but I don't recall if there was a definite outcome.
"Can't run Postgres securely" would be a more-than-sufficient reason
not to support NT4, IMHO.
> I would suggest changing the error to a warning, or perhaps adding a
> command line switch to 'downgrade' the error to a warning, thus forcing
> an explicit action on the part of the user.
See above. I don't want PG to become the next virus vector.
regards, tom lane
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