Re: Minimising windows installer password confusion

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> wrote:
> Dave Page  wrote:
>
>> Probably the most common issue we see from Windows users of
>> PostgreSQL is confusion over the passwords the installer asks for
>> during installation and upgrade.
>
> Yeah, I think so.
>
>> Attached are some screenshots of the current installation and
>> upgrade steps in question, and the password incorrect message box.
>> The suggested new text for the steps that I've come up with is
>> below. I'd welcome suggestions or improvements to help reduce
>> pgsql-bugs traffic!
>
> Are they running the installation as a system administrator?  If so,
> rather than throwing up an error message and telling them to go use
> other tools to reset the password, is it possible for the
> administrator account to force a password change?  If that is
> possible, it seems like it would be a lot more friendly.  If not,
> perhaps the old postgres user could be renamed, and a new one created
> with the password?

That might break another app running nuder that account. Such as a
different version of PostgreSQL...

But an option could be to create a different account to run it under,
I guess... Leaving the old one where it is. I think that's better than
renaming the old one, really.

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