"Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> wrote: > > 1) Users *can* start and stop services, if you just give them > > permissions to do so. This can be done on an individual service basis. > > You use the security configuration editor for that.
Thanks for the hint. I've found how to do that at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;288129 however, the services implementation in windows is completely braindead: an administrator gives the rights to user postgres to start postgresql (fine), but since the service needs to run as user postgres, I need to enter the password in the service definition. Even when the user postgres is logged on and wants to start the service. I don't want my password to be stored in the registry, so I am still stuck. *sigh*
All this hassle for what in unix would only require the addition of a single character: &
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