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From: Rolf Campbell <thats DOT unpossible AT gmail DOT com>
Subject:  Re: 1.5.18-1: /bin/cygrunsrv: Error enumerating services:          OpenService:     Win32 error 5:,Access is denied.
Date:  Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:26:42 -0400
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Brian Dessent wrote:
> Larry Hall wrote:
>>>$ cygrunsrv -L
>>>cygrunsrv: Error enumerating services: OpenService:  Win32 error 5:
>>>Access is denied.
>>OK, as expected.  Are you performing this operation over an ssh connection
>>using pubkey authentication?  If so and you're not also logged into this
>>machine locally as the same user, that *might* be a problem.
> When you run cygcheck -L it tries to OpenService() every service to look
> for Cygwin services, and it will bail if the call fails.  I suppose that
> it's possible that one of your installed services has permissions set
> such that regular users can't open it.  This might be set via
> permissions on the registry keys, I don't know how the service manager
> implements security.
> 
> Anyway, if you're not running this command as an administrator, that
> might explain it.  I suppose cygrunsrv could be modified to not bail on
> such an error and just continue trying to open the next service.  But it
> would still be good to know why the error is happening in the first
> place.
> 
> Brian
I am running as an administator.


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