The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 1245
Logged by: Windows Admin Bug
Email address: dev@null.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.0 Beta
Operating system: Windows 2000
Description: Postgres won't start
Details:
PostgreSQL won't start because I'm logged on as a user with administrative
rights. This is good practice in Linux / Unix circles, but is unacceptable
on Windows. Most windows users use accounts that have Administrative
priveledges on their machines. The reason for that is so that we can
actually install things, and also because prior to Windows XP, you could not
log on with another user before logging off. I understand the security
reasons for implementing this, but it doesn't make sense to implement extra
(and in my opinion, useless) security on an operating system that is
inherantly insecure. The windows user model does not work at all like the
Linux / Unix user model. Neither do permissions and rights. A study of
Windows culture would have shown that windows culture differs greatly from
Unix culture and that almost everyone uses a user with administrative rights
to log on.
I am not asking that you remove this feature, as it highlights security and
might make the user think twice before running things as and Admin user, but
I really would like to see a command line argument that power users could
use to get Postgresql to run even when I'm logged on as a user in the
Administrative group.
I am a developer and would have liked to use PostgreSql as a database. If I
can't get it to run from the command line on my machine, it goes straight
into the recycle bin, no matter how good it is. Sorry :)
