On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 14:13 +0000, Dave Page wrote: > Raymond O'Donnell wrote: > > Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > >> Thanks, yes, I verified the services has 'postgres' as the account being > >> used under the Log On tab of the PostgreSQL service. But still, the > >> service will not start with the administrative permissions error > >> previously posted. Any other ideas? > > > > Did you check that the "postgres" user is not part of the local > > "Administrators" group? > > Or any other group it might have inherited admin rights from. the check > is recursive - if you have *any* admin right, no matter how many parent > groups they were inheirted form, it'll find them and refuse to run. > The local administrators group has the Administrator, Domain Admins for the domain, and one other user (not postgres). The postgres user is a Member Of only the Users group. -- Robert
