Grant SCM privileges to non-admin user?

[M.]

Hello, I tried Google on this query, but did not find anything.

I have installed a CVSNT server (www.cvsnt.org) on my Win2K Prof.
machine and the applet (cvsnt.cpl) that controls & configures the
service must run with Administrators privileges: attempts to run the
applet fail with the dialog box "Couldn't open service control manager -
Access Denied", which is just as I expect. I always do my work using an
account in the "Power Users" group, and I do not want to grant that
account any more dangerous privileges.

Now, is there any way I can run just the CVSNT applet or (more useful)
easily grant myself temporary access to the service control manager?

 

[Jason Hall [MSFT]]

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Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 13:27:04 -0400
From: "M." <[email protected]>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040501
Subject: Grant SCM privileges to non-admin user?

Hello, I tried Google on this query, but did not find anything.

I have installed a CVSNT server (www.cvsnt.org) on my Win2K Prof.
machine and the applet (cvsnt.cpl) that controls & configures the
service must run with Administrators privileges: attempts to run the
applet fail with the dialog box "Couldn't open service control manager -
Access Denied", which is just as I expect. I always do my work using an
account in the "Power Users" group, and I do not want to grant that
account any more dangerous privileges.

Now, is there any way I can run just the CVSNT applet or (more useful)
easily grant myself temporary access to the service control manager?

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- You can hold down the SHIFT key and right-click on the applet to open it
with alternate credentials (ie. Administrator)
- Also, you may have some success with changing the permissions on
SERVICES.EXE, add your user account and give them full control on the file.

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