Re: Glom Windows Installer 2

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 10:23 -0700, Justin Findlay wrote:
> Sorry I haven't had much time to work on this lately.  I downloaded
> your new version but now I'm getting a new error:
>
>
> Child command failed
>
> The command was:
>
> 'C:\Program Files\Glom\bin\postgres.exe' -D "C:\Documents and
> Settings\tia\test\glom_postgres_data\data"  -p 5433 -h "*"  -c
> hba_file="C:\Documents and
> Settings\tia\test\glom_postgres_data/config/pg_hba.conf" -c
> ident_file="C:\Documents and
> Settings\tia\test\glom_postgres_data/config/pg_ident.conf" -k
> "C:\Documents and Settings\tia\test\glom_postgres_data"
> --external_pid_file="C:\Documents and
> Settings\tia\test\glom_postgres_data/pid"
>
> Execution of PostgreSQL by a user with administrative permissions is not
> permitted.
> The server must be started under an unprivileged user ID to prevent
> possible system security compromises.  See the documentation for
> more information on how to properly start the server.
>
>
> I guess I can try with a user of non administrative privileges.

(CCing glom-devel-list)

That's normal. postgres does not start under a privileged user account.
I know it is not as usual to work as a non-privileged user on Windows as
it is on Unix, but I don't see a way to work around this, and I'm not
sure either whether it would be a good idea.

> Justin