Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 08:58:32 -0400 From: Jason Tishler Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] XP Pro cygipc/PostgreSQL test report In-reply-to: To: cygwin@cygwin.com, pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org Mail-followup-to: cygwin@cygwin.com, pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org Message-id: <20030416125832.GC736@tishler.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i References: Karl, On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:38:52PM -0700, Karl M wrote: > In order to start services under a particular user account (Windows > 2000, XP, for NT I don't remember) you must give the user the "login > as a service" right. BTW, it is needed for NT too. > In XP Home Edition that is a bit tricky...you can't do it from the > local security policy snap-in becuase it is not there. You have to use > the program NTRights.exe to do it on XP Home Edition. This program is > part of the Windows 2000 resource kit. > > After you assign the "logon as a service" right, you can run services > under that user account just fine. I thought the above would be the solution, but no one with XP Home confirmed this in the past. Thanks for your help. Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/