On Tuesday 15 November 2005 03:05 pm, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > I explain myself about running PostGre as admin.
> > >
> > > In fact I don't want specifically run PostGre as admin. The problem
> >
> > is, on
> >
> > > the computers the application including PostGre will run,
> >
> > I'm not sure
> >
> > > that the user won't have any admin or power user rights.
> >
> > Furthermore,
> >
> > > I've noticed that on certain domains, any user created is
> > > automatically
> >
> > added
> >
> > > to
> > > a default group having power user rights (that is actually happening
> >
> > to
> >
> > > me).
> >
> > To be honest, the fact that Postgres forces you to run as a
> > non-admin user has given me nothing but headaches. (yes, I
> > know, the problem is defaulting everyone to admin rights is
> > the problem. But that's where I am). I have been kicking
> > around the idea of posting a change to allow you to run as
> > admin,
>
> This has been proposed before, and always rejected. While you're always
> welcome to provide a patch, I'm very doubtful it would be accepted into
> the main product.
Oracle allows you to run it as admin... Don't know about SQL Server...
My bet is PG will some day bite the bullet and allow this too as more and more
will use PG on Windows.
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Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
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