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Re: cygrunsrv
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:17:00 -0700
- Subject: Re: cygrunsrv
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <BAY19-F126E7F4B3B7BE81A6A02DAB5200@phx.gbl>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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