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See this news over at Rustylime: Firefox 3 is now the #1 browser in the World.
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Allow non admin user to restart services: easily
Giving elevated permissions to non administrative users can be a real pain, in Windows land. In fact, it can be so much of a pain that people often don’t bother, and just elevate users to have admin rights when they don’t need them.
A good example of this is when someone needs to be able to restart a service. Often, vendors need access to work on one of their applications on a server – and as part of that, they need to be able to restart a service. However, you don’t really want to hand them the keys to the server at the same time.
So instead of simply giving them local admin rights, or spending ages working with NTMon and NTRegmon to try to work out the specific reg keys and file permissions to change, how about just using Microsoft’s SubInACL tool?
It’s actually very easy to use. Basically, it allows you to modify the security settings directly related to just one service, giving an non-privileged user the ability to work with just that one application (although you can actually do much more with SubInACL than just services).
Here’s the syntax to give a user called “user1″ access to “service1″ on the server “\\domain1\server1″.
subinacl /service service1 /grant=domain1\user1 = TO
Here, T = start service and O = stop service.
Other commands include:
F : Full Control
R : Generic Read
W : Generic Write
X : Generic eXecute
L : Read controL
Q : Query Service Configuration
S : Query Service Status
E : Enumerate Dependent Services
C : Service Change Configuration
T : Start Service
O : Stop Service
P : Pause/Continue Service
I : Interrogate Service
U : Service User-Defined Control Commands
SubInACL can be downloaded here.
Please note earlier versions from the original Windows 2003 Resource Kit will not work on patched / service packed Windows 2003 servers, so this is the new version.