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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple