Service won't start as non-Power User

[Tim Werth]

This might not be the best place to post this, but it looked the best from
what I saw.

I have a .NET service that is installed on an XP SP 2 machine by a user with
admin privileges. The setup asks the user for a domain account to use run
the service as. If the domain account the user provides is not at least a
Power User on the machine, the service will not start. Is this a Windows
policy?

Even adding the domain user to the "Log on as a service" Users Rights didn't
help.

Tim

[John A. Bailo]

You don't have to use a domain account.

If the service does not require resources beyond the machine, I use a
local account to run the service.

Tim Werth wrote:

This might not be the best place to post this, but it looked the best from
what I saw.

I have a .NET service that is installed on an XP SP 2 machine by a user with
admin privileges. The setup asks the user for a domain account to use run
the service as. If the domain account the user provides is not at least a
Power User on the machine, the service will not start. Is this a Windows
policy?

Even adding the domain user to the "Log on as a service" Users Rights didn't
help.

Tim

[Tim Werth]

Yes, but my service does use resources on other machines.

[Phil Wilson]

I believe the other right that's required is Act as part of the operating
system.
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Phil Wilson [MVP Windows Installer]
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Yes, but my service does use resources on other machines.

[Tim Werth]

Thanks guys for the responses. I posted this over in the CSHARP newsgroup
and got my answer. The problem is when my service was set up to run as the <
PU user, my code was making calls that required admin privileges. I put
trace statements in, but they weren't being written to the log file because
that same user did not have permissions to write to the folder.

Tim