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Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:17:00 -0700
From:	Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: cygrunsrv
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Karl M wrote:

> In testing out my keychain service on a new XP system, I was thinking about
> all of the questions
> that have shown up on the cygwin@... list in the past about launching a
> service from a user-id other than SYSTEM. And...I was wondering how you(s)
> felt about adding the ability for cygrunsrv to change user-id before running
> the target application.

Why should cygrunsrv switch users?  Why not just install the service to
run as the desired user?  cygrunsrv already supports this with --user.

Brian

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