Re: I'd love to know what the rest of this error messagei s. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dave Page
Subject Re: I'd love to know what the rest of this error messagei s.
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Msg-id 200703031317450000@3232527445
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> ------- Original Message -------
> From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
> To: Hannes Dorbath <light@theendofthetunnel.de>
> Sent: 03/03/07, 12:09:18
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] I'd love to know what the rest of this error messageis.
>
> Hannes Dorbath wrote:
> > Bill Moran wrote:
> >> It's a shame -- I get the impression that the rest of that error message
> >> would help you fix the issue, but I don't remember what you can do about
> >> it.  Probably something to do with group policy, or some other setting
> >> in the security realm.
> >
> >
> > Try CTRL + C while focus on the error dialog, then paste to notepad.
> > That usually works.
> >
>
> FWIW, the complete message comes out of this line:
>                 snwprintf(errmsg,errsize,__("Your local '%s' group contains
> '%S'.\n\nThis is a common configuration error that causes security
> issues. For this reason, PostgreSQL will not run until this error has
> been corrected."),
>                        groupname, lookforsids[j].friendlyname);
>
> (sorry about the linebreaks)
>
> First of all, we should enlarge that buffer :)
>
> But second, I think we can remove the check altogether, now that we in
> 8.2 will actually start from such an account. We did remove the check
> for the actual account being in there... Dave, do you agree?

Yes, please fix :-P

/D

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