Hmm, I've heard network service is a very reasonable thing to install as. It has few permissions on the local machine but it can act as the machine on the network. Our datacenter ops guys love network service because it doesn't require the password to be updated routinely the way an account requires.
LocalSystem on the other hand is the basically the same thing as Administrator and opens a really scary attack surface. LocalService can't do much of anything interesting but is the safest (because it can't do much of anything). <smile/> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 21:36 To: WiX Users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] service fail to install due to networkService account In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, zhisheng huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Solved. The network service account needs to be specified with its domain. Its generally bad practice to install services running as either local system or network service. The best practice is to create an account with only the permissions that your service needs and install the service to run as this account. Most of the time, local system and network service have many more privileges and permissions than your service needs. Using your own account allows you to control the permissions and privileges used by your service explicitly instead of getting whatever implicit privileges and permissions are associated with an existing account. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
