Do NOT Remove User Account on Uninstall

[wholt@nabancard.com]

Use case: My Installer installs a 3rd party product (Postgres) during installation, that gets installed using a User Account created in User & Groups portion of Postgres. During Upgrades or Uninstallation of our product we are no longer uninstalling that 3rd party product (Postgres). Therefore I do NOT want my uninstaller to remove that User Account.

In addition, our Installer adds an additional user for our product services.

I tried adding NOT Installed to the Install Conditions and it did nothing.
Google searching yielded nothing relevant or helpful within the first couple of pages.
I found this link (https://www.google.com/url?client=inter ... w5XfRR_YGA) on this (AI's) site, but back to 2008. Is this still the only possible way to do what I need?

If I understand the above link, mods to it would also leave in place ALL added User Accounts done during installation?

[Catalin]

Hello,

If you do not want to remove the user created during the install process, you can proceed as it follows:

• go to "Table Editor" page

• "InstallExecuteSequence" table

• add a false condition to the "AI_UninstallAccounts" action

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I tried adding NOT Installed to the Install Conditions and it did nothing.

I am not quite sure what you want to achieve here.

If you want to skip the installation of the user if it already exists, you can go to "User and Groups" page and check the "Skip user creation if the user already exists" option.

Best regards,
Catalin