Thread: Vista Security

Vista Security

From
Dale Seaburg
Date:
I am attempting to install 8,2,4 on a Vista PC.  I get to the point
in the installation, where files have been copied and the installer
attempts to create the postgres user.  It fails with "Access Denied"
message.  I am a user with administrator privileges doing the
install.  What am I missing (other than having to deal with
aggravating Vista)?

Dale Seaburg

Re: Vista Security

From
"Phillip Smith"
Date:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-novice-
> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Dale Seaburg
> Sent: Tuesday, 4 December 2007 07:29
> To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
> Subject: [NOVICE] Vista Security
>
> I am a user with administrator privileges doing the
> install.  What am I missing?

A Linux server? ;-)

Are you the actual Administrator or a user account that is an Administrator?
I'm not real crash hot with Windows, but maybe there's another group you
need to belong to if you're a user with Admin rights? (ie, Power Users,
Backup etc... I can't remember what other strange ones MS came up with)


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Re: Vista Security

From
"A. Kretschmer"
Date:
am  Mon, dem 03.12.2007, um 14:29:04 -0600 mailte Dale Seaburg folgendes:
> I am attempting to install 8,2,4 on a Vista PC.  I get to the point
> in the installation, where files have been copied and the installer
> attempts to create the postgres user.  It fails with "Access Denied"
> message.  I am a user with administrator privileges doing the
> install.  What am I missing (other than having to deal with
> aggravating Vista)?

Use a better OS ;-)

I'm not familiar with Windoze, but i heard, it is necessary to disable
UAC on Vista to install PG.
http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vista.htm


Andreas
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Re: Vista Security

From
"A. Kretschmer"
Date:
am  Tue, dem 04.12.2007, um  7:31:34 -0600 mailte Dale Seaburg folgendes:
> Thank you, Andreas,  Yes, that was the secret.  For whatever reason,
> when I first attempted to turn off UAC, it didn't work, and that had

Please, answer to the list and not privat to me - maybe other people
have the same problems and when they search the archive they can't see
that my answer was okay for you.


>
> On Dec 3, 2007, at 11:57 PM, A. Kretschmer wrote:
>
> >am  Mon, dem 03.12.2007, um 14:29:04 -0600 mailte Dale Seaburg
> >folgendes:
> >>I am attempting to install 8,2,4 on a Vista PC.  I get to the point
> >>in the installation, where files have been copied and the installer
> >>attempts to create the postgres user.  It fails with "Access Denied"
> >>message.  I am a user with administrator privileges doing the
> >>install.  What am I missing (other than having to deal with
> >>aggravating Vista)?

And, additionally, don't answer on the top with fullquote below. This is
hard to read/understand for other people.


Andreas
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