Re: Windows installation requires admin rights

Sure, I will update you soon.

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 1:29 PM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 9:25 PM Antoine Aumjaud <antoine_dev(at)aumjaud(dot)fr>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> The actual configuration of *Inno Setup* for the installation of
>> *pgAdmin4* requires admin privileges on the computer :
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/postgres/pgadmin4/blob/master/pkg/win32/installer.iss.in#L31
>>
>> PrivilegesRequired=admin
>>
>>
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>>
>> The pgAdmin package provided by entreprisedb can be installed without
>> admin rights, but it is an old version of pgAdmin.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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