Re: Minimising windows installer password confusion

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> 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). Now would be a very good time for people to yelp if they
> think this is a bad idea (the only downside I can see if accessing
> files for server-side copy etc, but users that want to do that can
> install with a non-default account). If we go ahead, we'll include it
> in 9.2.

What happens if they try to use this to upgrade from the EDB 9.1 installers?

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