Re: Run-as-admin warning for win32 - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Run-as-admin warning for win32
Date
Msg-id 4097A69F.20106@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Run-as-admin warning for win32  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
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Magnus Hagander wrote:

>>>. if the installer is running as Administrator, it should create a
>>>Postgres user
>>>
>>>
>>>IOW, we need to make it as easy as possible to be secure.
>>>
>>>
>>No objection to that idea ...
>>
>>
>
>I don't think we should create a postgres user. We should tell the guy
>who installs it to do that, and have him tell us what it is, but we
>should not actually go create the user for him. That is sure to annoy a
>lot of people. Most shops I know have standard naming conventinos, and
>would not want a user called "postgres" without any qualifications.
>
>I know, small point, but I think significant.
>
>


Then how about we ask them what user it should run as, and offer them
the option of an exisiting user (they pick from a list) or a new user
(which we would create for them), with their choice of new user name,
defaulting to Postgres?

cheers

andrew



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