| From: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Sachin Srivastava <sachin(dot)srivastava(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Ashesh Vashi <ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Dharmendra Goyal <dharmendra(dot)goyal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Minimising windows installer password confusion |
| Date: | 2012-06-16 04:35:51 |
| Message-ID: | 4FDC0D27.9030806@postnewspapers.com.au |
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On 06/14/2012 11:59 PM, Dave Page wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>> I'll have a play with it and see if a simple switch to NetworkService
>> seems feasible.
> OK, I worked up a patch which uses "NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService" as
> the service account by default. This doesn't need a password, so
> allows us to simply prompt during installation for the superuser
> password for the cluster, and not at all during upgrade. If you run
> the installer from the command line with "--serviceaccount postgres"
> (or some other account name), you get the current behaviour.
>
> I've posted it on our internal ReviewBoard system for the rest of the
> team to review and test on various platforms (I've only tried it on XP
> so far).
Cool. Feel free to lob me a link if you want, I have several unimportant
systems I can test it on too.
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