Re: Minimising windows installer password confusion

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Sachin Srivastava <sachin(dot)srivastava(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com, dharmendra(dot)goyal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Minimising windows installer password confusion
Date: 2012-06-14 01:16:45
Message-ID: 4FD93B7D.80205@postnewspapers.com.au
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On 06/13/2012 05:18 PM, Dave Page wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Craig Ringer

>> Why "using the windows control panel" ?
>
> Because when I wrote the email I was looking for a simple solution
> that wouldn't require writing code that has potential to fail
> depending on how the users environment is configured (the user account
> stuff tends to go wrong in weird ways, for example when used on
> domains in unusual (or high security) configurations. We're spending a
> lot of effort at the moment getting the 9.2 buildfarm together, and
> updating all the StackBuilder add-on packages (think multiple
> man-months) - I'm trying not to add to that too much.

Ah, sorry. I'm *not* trying to say that any of this is stuff that EDB
"should" just up and do. I have no say over what you do and how, I'm
just trying to raise possible usability points that might be useful,
either soon or to inform design of later releases.

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Craig Ringer

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