Re: BUG #6652: Installer grants postgres user rights for the whole disk, not specified subfolder

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
> Excerpts from Dave Page's message of mar jun 05 14:38:54 -0400 2012:
>>
>> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Alvaro Herrera
>> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
>> >> I have been installing PostgreSQL 9.1.3.2, and I've noted that 'creat=
ing
>> >> database cluster' is too long. I have been waiting for a half of hour=
, and
>> >> it hasn't finished.
>> >> I've noted that installer calls icacls.exe with arguments:
>> >> D:\ /grant "postgres":RX
>> >
>> > This seems to be reported every once in a while. =A0It looks like the
>> > one-clunk installer is to blame. =A0Maybe it's been fixed in some more
>> > recent version -- Dave Page would probably know.
>>
>> Just as an FYI, we are working on this. We've been able to reproduce
>> it, and it appears that icacls (a Microsoft utility) will sometimes
>> look at the ACL of every file/directory recursively when it grants the
>> required privileges on higher level directories. The good news is that
>> in none of the test we've done has it ever modified the ACL on the
>> wrong thing - it just takes a long time if there are a lot of items on
>> the filesystem. We've looked at third party alternatives to icacls,
>> and they seem to exhibit similar traits. We're also going to look into
>> other ways around the root problem.
>
> Maybe you should provide some way for the user to figure out the exact
> command it's running, where it's running it, and what user it runs as.

Not sure why/how that would help. We know what we've told it to do,
and why - we just don't know why the Microsoft utility insists on
looking at the ACLs of files it should have no need to touch.

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