Re: Windows Admin user running Glom

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 12:24 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 15:39 +1300, David Martin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I run Glom on my Windows machine it falls over totally with an
> > error claiming I am running as root user.  Now I know that it may be a
> > bad thing to run Glom as an Admin user on windows but I would like to
> > be able to force Glom to run anyway, its not at all fun to have to
> > right click and 'Run As' a special Glom user.  I want to use Glom for
> > a club membership database and there is no way that any of the club
> > members using it would be competent to create a new user on their
> > machine just for Glom.
> >
> > Is there any way to disable this check?
>
> I don't think that's wise regardless of whether they use Glom. Surely
> the PC should be set up for them properly?
>
> The not-as-admin limit actually comes from PostgreSQL which we use. Even
> if we wanted to, I don't think it would be easy to get around that. It
> seems sensible anyway to prevent admin use for any networked
> application. 

It might make sense to allow running Glom with an admin account when
using SQLite, though. In the database creation dialog, we could replace
the postgresql options with a message that postgresql is only available
when not running as admin.

Armin