need to allow standard user to start/stop NT service on Vista
I have an InstallScript project that includes the installation of a Windows NT service. I want to be able to start and stop this service on a Vista-based platform as a standard user without the need for administrator privileges. Is there something I can set in the settings for the prepackaged InstallShield NT Service object that will allow me to do this? So far I've tried playing with a couple of the flags, but with no avail. The option in the services list for starting this service is still not available when I view it as a standard user.
Or does anyone know what else I can do? :confused:
you are running into a Windows Security issue. Standard users do not have the rights to install/ uninstall / start / stop NT services. Whoever is doing the install will have to have those rights or the install of the service will fail.
Lurean, thanks for your quick reply. The one installing it will indeed be required to have administrator privileges, so that's no problem for me, but my question is about starting/stopping the service later on. Granted, the default is as you say, that a standard user does not have those rights by default. But the rights can be granted by modifying the service's DACL, as confirmed in the following article:
(See the section entitled, "Starting and Stopping services".)
And indeed, if you log in as a standard user, you will see that although some services don't let you start them, others do. So my question is, is there any way I can set this through InstallShield or do I need to come up with a way of doing it myself?
