On Jan 26, 2005, at 17:11, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> OK, perhaps I'm not comparing apples to apples. On OS X I
>> have an administrative account and I can run PostgreSQL just
>> fine. So what you are saying is an administrative account on
>> Windows is more like root on Unix.
>
> Really? I'd call that a bug in the OSX port, but I don't know enough to
> actually say that's really so. For example, what an "administrative
> account" means on OSX. If the account has permissions to write all over
> the place, then it should not be permitted tos tart the backend as that
> user.
Administrator accounts on Mac OS X are more powerful than Standard
accounts (for example, they can sudo, but not run root commands
directly), but they are definitely not root. Root, by default, is
disabled on Mac OS X.
Michael Glaesemann
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