Windows Service asking for Service Login

[tshad]

I am setting up a Windows Service at a clients site and a window comes up:

Set Service Login

that asks for UserName and Password.

Is this the credentials that the service will logon as or maybe to install
the service?

How do I get it to use the login I am logged in on?

I am the administrator on this machine.

Thanks,

Tom

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Re: Windows Service asking for Service Login

tshad wrote:

I am setting up a Windows Service at a clients site and a window comes up:
>
Set Service Login
>
that asks for UserName and Password.
>
Is this the credentials that the service will logon as or maybe to install
the service?
>
How do I get it to use the login I am logged in on?
>
I am the administrator on this machine.
>
Thanks,
>
Tom
>
>

A service runs all the time, and needs a specific username context to
run under, it can't run under "whoever is logged on at any given time".
If you want that kind of security, make the program auto-start when the
user logs on instead, and not a service.

If you're the administrator of the machine, and wants the service to
have your access rights, specify your own username and password for it.

Typically though you would create a new user specifically for the
service with the correct access rights according to what it needs to do.

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[Chirag Bhavsar]

Windows Service asking for Service Login

Change the Account for the serviceProcessI nstaller to LocalSystem. It can be done by opening ProjectInstalle r design and selecting serviceProcessI nstaller, properties and change the account property to LocalSystem or manually create the file as previously posted.

[Marc Gravell]

Re: Windows Service asking for Service Login

Change the Account for the serviceProcessI nstaller to LocalSystem

I'd be cautious of doing this personally... network service / local service
are quite good choices for simple scenarios, since they have restricted
access... if a dedicated domain account is needed for some ACLs, then run as
that user... but local system should be used with caution. It is very rare
that a service needs that level of privelege. As a general rule, any app
should have only the priveleges it needs...

Marc