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Subject: Re: Cygrunsrv and special Windows virtual accounts "NT SERVICE"
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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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