Re: Running As Root

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 10:57 +1300, Mike Toews wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm certain this has been discussed before, but thought I should
> revoice it. While evaluating a few database apps for a project, I
> thought I'd try glom, as I'm a long time PostgreSQL user. However it
> is dead on arrival.
>
> When I try and start it up on my work computer (Win7), glom
> immediately shows an error dialog "Running As Root"
> > You seem to be running Glom as a user with administrator privileges. Glom may not be run with such 
> > privileges for security reasons.
> > Please login to your system as a normal user."
>
> I don't manage my work computer, IT does, and the security policy is
> not not going to change. Other programs on the computer appear to not
> mind having administrator privileges, so I don't see why glom needs to
> disagree with the security policy, and refuse to run.
>
> The version I tried was downloaded from:
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/glom/1.14/glom-setup-1.14.0-1.exe

It's not Glom that creates this requirement - it's PostgreSQL. You
cannot run PostgreSQL locally as an Administrator.

I guess we could have an option in the installer to disable use of local
databases, which is what PostgreSQL is needed for.

The Windows installer is very old anyway, because we are still waiting
for GTK+ 3 binaries for Windows.

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