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In my view Windows Authentication is still more secure. Just.
With windows authentication you can allow a group of people (via a Windows Group) to have access to the database. Only those users can use an application, any application, to connect to the database.
If you use a SQL Server account then anyone who knows the credentials (and invariably these ...
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No, there is no reliable way to prevent the local administrator (or a domain admin with the ability to grant themselves local admin on a machine) from accessing the raw PostgreSQL data files, starting/stopping the server, changing the service account password, changing pg_hba.conf so they can log in to the server, etc.
As stated in the comments, if you ...
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