Tom Lane wrote:
"Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Well, that's kinda the point. If you are a hacker who has local admin
privs (not exactly unusual on Windows networks - in some cases Power
User group membership is required to run legacy software), you *cannot*
run PostgreSQL except as a service, thus potentially making it a show
stopper for those users.
So? I don't follow why "run it as a service" isn't a sufficient answer, and indeed the preferred way to do it.
We don't know what the usage pattern is going to be on Windows - I think we need to keep it as flexible as possible consistent with good security. Bear in mind that Windows is effectively a one-console system - that's one reason why so many users just log on as Administrator - switching to another user is much more of a pain than it is on Unix.
cheers
andrew
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