Re: Windows installation requires admin rights

Hi

On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 9:25 PM Antoine Aumjaud <antoine_dev(at)aumjaud(dot)fr>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
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> The actual configuration of *Inno Setup* for the installation of
> *pgAdmin4* requires admin privileges on the computer :
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> https://github.com/postgres/pgadmin4/blob/master/pkg/win32/installer.iss.in#L31
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> PrivilegesRequired=admin
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> I have read the whole configuration, and I think that this constrain could
> be remove if HKCU (HKEY_CURENT_USER of Windows registry) is used instead of
> HKLM (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE).
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> The pgAdmin package provided by entreprisedb can be installed without
> admin rights, but it is an old version of pgAdmin.
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>
> Do you think that this modification is possible?
>
I think it's a little more complex than that, but here's a patch that I
think does everything required. The only part I'm not sure about is the
VC++ runtime installation, and ensuring that will work for non-admins.
Fahar; can you test that on a *completely* clean installation of Windows
please? You must run the "install only for me" option before anything else
(don't even install VMware tools).

There's a test build at
https://developer.pgadmin.org/~dpage/non-admin-install/pgadmin4-5.3-x64.exe.
Note that it is not signed, so you will get a warning, but that can be
ignored for the purposes of this test.

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