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Date:	Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:22:48 +0100
From:	"Jim.George" <jim DOT george AT blueyonder DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Multiple users in fetchmail
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Jason Tishler wrote:

> Jim,
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 10:00:57PM +0100, Jim George wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 09:15:01 -0400 Jason Tishler wrote:
> > > The following (untested and ugly) workaround should work:
> > > [snip]
> >
> > when ever I try the following I get the subsequent error.
> >
> > I have set the user 'dani' to be a member of Users, Power Users, and
> > Administrators (I did this progressively trying to install fetchmail
> > at each every change).
> >
> > cygrunsrv --install "fetchmail for dani" --path /usr/bin/fetchmail --env HOME=/home/dani --user "GATEWAY\\dani" --args '--daemon 300 --nodetach' --shutdown
> > cygrunsrv: Error installing a service: OpenSCManager:  Win32 error 5:
> > Access is denied.
> >
> > Do you have any ideas?
>
> Is the account that is executing the above cygrunsrv command a member of
> the local Administrators group?  If not, then that would explain the
> "Access is denied" error.  If so, then I have no idea why cygrunsrv is
> failing for you.
>
> BTW, the dani account must have the "Log on as a service" user right in
> order for the service to successfully start.  I forgot to add this to my
> README.  I have just updated the README which can be found at:
>
>     http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/fetchmail/fetchmail-5.9.13.README
>
> Now back to my workaround.  My suggestion was to just install fetchmail
> as a service multiple times -- once for each user.  This is just
> temporary until I finish porting the setuid aspects of fetchmail to
> Cygwin.  However, you will have to determine why you can't install
> fetchmail as a NT service for a single user, before you can attempt to
> use this workaround.
>
> Jason
Jason,

	the user dani is a member of Administrators.

	She is in-fact the second user that I'm trying to run ther service
for, the first being Administrator.

	How do I grant the 'logon as service' right to the user dani?

Thanks for your continued help.

Jim


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