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Re: Invalid username specified


  • From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
  • To: "Paul Kirschner" <kirschpe(at)hotmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: Invalid username specified
  • Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:04:27 +0100
  • Message-id: <6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE4766C0(at)algol(dot)sollentuna(dot)se>

>My login is an NT domain account. I thought the postgres account was 
>established as local. I changed nothing on the service 
>configuration screen 
>so I didn't knowinly make it a domain account.

Then it's a local account. That's default on everything except Domain
Controllers (which don't have local accounts)

>I have local admin rights and can delete the local postgres 
>user but have NO admin rights at the domain level.

That just confirms it.


>I have also tried to use postgres2 (and other numbers for 
>unused names) as 
>the service account and had the same problem.
>
>Why would a local account have towait for domain replication?

That's a very good question :-) In theory anything account-related is
affected by Group Policy settings, but I have no idea which one would be
affecting this one. But everything points to something domain related.

//Magnus



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