Avoiding the postgres user account

Hello,

Our apps many times are used on notebooks as a desktop application, synchronized periodically with servers. Installing en extra account is disturbing for the user, running the engine under an administrator account is all fine. Is there a way to avoid the creation of the postgres user account and use the current account instead?

Hello,

Use, --serviceaccount CLI option while installing, here you can give existing users also.
However, using an user with administrative privileges is strongly not-recommended.

Thank You!

Hi, can you please give me advice on how to run the postgres service using a local system account? I can't run this product by creating a new user and there will be multiple users using the same computer.

What is the command --serviceaccount CLI designed to do? in my tests all it does is create a user called CLI and try to run the service using that users account.

Hello,

CLI option stands for Command Line options. So what i actually meant by it is:
--serviceaccount <what ever username you want to give here>, e.g.

--serviceaccount abc, will create a user 'abc' if not present or use the same if present..

To make the service run under 'Local System' account, go to the Service Control Manager and change the log-on properties of the service.

Hope it helps..

Thanks for the reply, I was really hoping for a command line option that would enable me to run the service as Local system, I don't want to do this manually this needs to be deployed to many sites. Is that possible? surely there must be a method to deploy Postgres without an account being created?

surely there must be a method to deploy Postgres without an account being created?

Due to the architecture of postgres, there is not a way to do this from the installer. You could however script the action. Using something like sc.exe (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251192)