Re: pg_ctl start leaves dos window open

[Richard van den Berg <richard.vandenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Magnus Hagander" <mha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> > 1) Users *can* start and stop services, if you just give them
> > permissions to do so. This can be done on an individual service
basis.
> > You use the security configuration editor for that.

Thanks for the hint. I've found how to do that at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;288129
however, the services implementation in windows is
completely braindead: an administrator gives the rights to user postgres
to start postgresql (fine), but since the service needs to run as user
postgres, I need to enter the password in the service definition. Even
when the user postgres is logged on and wants to start the service. I don't
want my password to be stored in the registry, so I am still stuck. *sigh*

All this hassle for what in unix would only require
the addition of a single character: &

Richard van den Berg, CISSP
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