Cygrunsrv and special Windows virtual accounts "NT SERVICE"
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Dec 7 16:00:00 GMT 2012
On Dec 7 13:30, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a suggestion that cygrunsrv doesn't ask for any password with
> the option -u (and -w not provided), if the specified user is like
> "NT SERVICE\svcname", where svcname is the service being added.
>
> Otherwise, cygrunsrv is not self-sufficient for defining a service,
> and has to be further supplemented with a "patch" using the native
> "SC" command. Yet having every service to run under the privileged
> LocalSystem account is not always justified.
>
> So, instead of having to do a two-step process:
>
> cygrunsrv -I svcname ...
> sc config svcname obj= "NT SERVICE\svcname"
>
> everything could be done in one command:
>
> cygrunsrv -I svcname -u "NT SERVICE\svcname" ...
What about
cygrunsrv -I svcname -u "NT SERVICE\svcname" -p ''
?
Corinna
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