Re: Minimising windows installer password confusion

On 06/14/2012 11:59 PM, Dave Page wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>> I'll have a play with it and see if a simple switch to NetworkService
>> seems feasible.
> OK, I worked up a patch which uses "NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService" as
> the service account by default. This doesn't need a password, so
> allows us to simply prompt during installation for the superuser
> password for the cluster, and not at all during upgrade. If you run
> the installer from the command line with "--serviceaccount postgres"
> (or some other account name), you get the current behaviour.
>
> I've posted it on our internal ReviewBoard system for the rest of the
> team to review and test on various platforms (I've only tried it on XP
> so far).
Cool. Feel free to lob me a link if you want, I have several unimportant 
systems I can test it on too.

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