Re: PostgreSQL wants to install, cancel or allow? (was Re: Windows Vista support (Buildfarm Vaquita) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Page
Subject Re: PostgreSQL wants to install, cancel or allow? (was Re: Windows Vista support (Buildfarm Vaquita)
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Msg-id 4641C644.7020901@postgresql.org
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In response to PostgreSQL wants to install, cancel or allow? (was Re: Windows Vista support (Buildfarm Vaquita)  (Ned Lilly <ned@nedscape.com>)
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Ned Lilly wrote:
> On 5/9/2007 7:46 AM Dave Page wrote:
> 
>> Oh, hang on... Vista's new 'security' features include popups that ask 
>> permission from the user before running any installers. One of the 
>> more basic checks they use is the filename - *anything* called 
>> setup.exe will cause user confirmation to be required before it will 
>> run. I believe for non-interactive sessions it'll just refuse to run. 
>> I just tried running update.exe myself, and yes, you guessed it, a 
>> user confirmation dialog popped up :-(
> 
> You can just disable that "feature" by turning off "User Account 
> Control" under the Windows Security Center...

Yeah, I know, but that's not really a solution we can live with.

Regards, Dave.


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