pgAgent installation: Wrong/Misleading error message/failed installation when the default postgres db user's password doesn't meet window security policy. #7490

[rdczhzq]

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Describe the bug

During pgAgent installation, when the GUI prompts for a default user: postgres to be created , if the user's windows password is not fulfilling windows security policy, the GUI prompts an error message, saying something like " The password length doesn't meet the requirement".(e.g. if the postgres db user's password is set to 123456).

To Reproduce

DB user postgres, password: 123456

Install the pgagent under adminstrator rights.

When the GUI prompts enter password for the default user: postgres, input:123456, you will never pass with an error message saying something "The posssword length doesn't meet the reqirement".

Then you create another windows user with password fulfilling windows securty policy and during pgagent installation, use admin as the user and also the windows approved password, installation succeeded without any problem.

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OS: [e.g. Windows 10, OSX monterey]
Version: [e.g. 6.15]
Mode: [e.g Desktop or Server]
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[dpage-edb]

Can you clarify exactly what message you feel is misleading please? The only one that talks about password length that I can find is this:

edb-installers/pgAgent/scripts/windows/createuser/createuser.cpp

Line 108 in 57b0e11

accterr = "The password is too short or not complex enough.";