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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:20:59 -0800
From: "William Zhang" <espzzh AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Run OpenSSH service with Local System Account
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Hi All,

I am wondering if there is a way to run the Cygwin OpenSSH service as
Local System Account in Windows 2003 and 2008 instead of the
cyg_server account created during the setup.   I am using
Cygwin+OpenSSH on the Windows test server and I remotely execute
automation testing script from a linux box. However the program
running on the Windows server is a GUI based program and has some
dialog box pop up at some time during the test.  Since running the SSH
service with cyg_server account does not allow the program to interact
with desktop, the test program will stop in the middle of the
automation test.   If it allow me to running the SSH service with
Local System Account, I can enable the "allow the service to interact
with desktop" option and my problem should be solved.    I understand
there is purpose to create an account with special privileges as the
setup says:

"*** Info: You appear to be running Windows 2003 Server or later.  On 2003 and
*** Info: later systems, it's not possible to use the LocalSystem account
*** Info: for services that can change the user id without an explicit password
*** Info: (such as passwordless logins [e.g. public key authentication] via sshd
).

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