Hi Jason,
As near as I can tell, the establishment of PostgreSQL as a service only
needs to be initially set up with a user name with a password. After the
initial set up, that user doesn't need
to log on in order for the service to start. In other words, if I INSTALL
PostgreSQL as a
service under George Weaver, password 123456, I do not need to log in as
George Weaver for the service to start. I can do a cold boot, log
in as Guest (no administrative privileges), and PostgreSQL is available to
me.
However, if I change the user name or password that installed PostgreSQL as
a service, it won't start as a service, giving the "The service did not
start due to a logon error" message. From a non-computer expert, layman
standpoint, it appears that the service needs the security to know that at
one point in time, a properly authorized user installed it, and that user
still exists on the system.
Regards,
George
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Tishler" <jason@tishler.net>
To: "George Weaver" <georgew1@mts.net>
Cc: <pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org>; "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] XP Pro cygipc/PostgreSQL test report
> George,
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 08:43:48AM -0500, George Weaver wrote:
> > If you started XP with this user name and id, you should now be able
> > to start the service. If you haven't started XP with this user name
> > and password, do so, and the service should start automatically when
> > you log in." (posted to <pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org> on March 16).
>
> The above seems to imply that the service will only start upon login.
> Is my interpretation correct? If so, is there a way to get the service
> to start at boot time (without ntrights)?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
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