Grant a user the rights to start/stop services

[Guillaume]

Hi,
right now i'm trying to make as secure as possible a Windows XP Pro SP2
box. So the user is only User which is fine. The problem is that i need him
to be also able to start/stop services. So how can i delegate rights to that
user to do just that without giving him administrator permissions ? And it's
a Windows XP SP2 alone, no Active Directory here.

Thanks in advance for everything!

 

[Niniel]

You could create a user group if you don't have one already - XP comes with
several groups, but I don't recally if there's one that can work on services
only - that has permission to do what you want, and then add your user to
that group. That's better than trying to assign right to the user - if you
ever want to revoke the right temporarily, or need more people to have the
same right, you just add them to that group or delete them from it.

To get you started, take a look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../proddocs/en-us/lsm_overview_01.mspx?mfr=true

Unfortunately, I don't know how exactly to set up a group that can just
switch services on/off, but maybe somebody else can. Or experiment a bit.

Sorry I can't be of any more help.