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

2012-12-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 18 10:45, bartels wrote: > On 12/18/2012 05:57 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> what about '-w -' or a long-only option > >>> like --null-pwd? > >I'd say, the latter. > >"-w -" looks like you are trying to read password from STDIN. > > I heartily concur for two reasons: > > 1) '-w -' really

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

2012-12-18 Thread bartels
On 12/18/2012 05:57 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: what about '-w -' or a long-only option > like --null-pwd? I'd say, the latter. "-w -" looks like you are trying to read password from STDIN. I heartily concur for two reasons: 1) '-w -' really looks like like stdin/out 2) '-' is actually a vali

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

2012-12-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > Apart from the fact that NULL is a terrible password, I'd still be more > comfortable to allow a NULL password as a user defined option on the > command line. If not -W NULL, what about '-w -' or a long-only option > like --null-pwd? I'd say, the latter. "-w -" loo

RE: Cygrunsrv and special Windows virtual accounts "NT SERVICE"

2012-12-17 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> what about '-w -' or a long-only option like --null-pwd? I'd be happy with either! Thanks, Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI

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

2012-12-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 14 16:23, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-12/msg00154.html > > Thanks. > > > I'm wondering if it's such a bright idea to use a NULL password based on > > a check for a certain domain. That's practically guaranteed to break > > at one point

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

2012-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 05:06:16PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Dec 14 16:01, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >> Just checking whether this is going to be implemented... > >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-12/msg00154.html So you're working on it? cgf -- Problem reports:

RE: Cygrunsrv and special Windows virtual accounts "NT SERVICE"

2012-12-14 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-12/msg00154.html Thanks. > I'm wondering if it's such a bright idea to use a NULL password based on > a check for a certain domain. That's practically guaranteed to break > at one point again. I don’t think Microsoft is going to drop "NT SERVICE\" in any near

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

2012-12-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 14 16:01, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > Just checking whether this is going to be implemented... http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-12/msg00154.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin

RE: Cygrunsrv and special Windows virtual accounts "NT SERVICE"

2012-12-14 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
Just checking whether this is going to be implemented... Thanks, Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI > -Original Message- > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 11:50 AM > Subject: RE: Cygrunsrv and special Windows virtual accounts "NT > SERVICE" > > &

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

2012-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 7 16:49, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > > per the bad user/pass combo, presumably). > > Per MSDN, > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682450%28v=vs.85%29.aspx > : > > If the account name specified by the lpServiceStartName parameter is the name >

RE: Cygrunsrv and special Windows virtual accounts "NT SERVICE"

2012-12-07 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> per the bad user/pass combo, presumably). Per MSDN, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682450%28v=vs.85%29.aspx : If the account name specified by the lpServiceStartName parameter is the name of a managed service account or virtual account name, the lpPassword paramete

RE: Cygrunsrv and special Windows virtual accounts "NT SERVICE"

2012-12-07 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> cygrunsrv -I svcname -u "NT SERVICE\svcname" -p '' I'm not quite sure I follow your suggestion: -p is for path to the actual executable that implements the background process If you meant -w '' (or as documentation suggests '-w ') then it does not work for some reason -- cygrunsrv cannot ins

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

2012-12-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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, cyg