cygrunsrv can't run as administrator

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sun Oct 12 20:47:00 GMT 2003


On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 12:36:27PM -0700, Alex Liberman wrote:
> hello, when I try to install a service with cygrunsrv and select the option 
> to run that process as administrator, cygrunsrv is unable to start the 
> process (eg fetchmail but it can be any process). It runs ok as LocalUser. 
> Also I can tell that cygrunsrv isn't even able to get to the binary when I 
> use the run as administrator option, because when I do ls -lu 
> /bin/fetchmail.exe the access time is old. Any ideas? thx,

The administrator account has by default no right to start services.
You can add that right by calling

  editrights -u administrator -a SeServiceLogonRight

Corinna

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