Which rights does a user need to control an windows service?

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> "Olcay" <Olcay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F3CEE943-C130-4DF4-9BEB-C5FDE304D88D@microsoft.com...

>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to give a user the right(s) to control an already installed
>> windows
>> service. The user runs an application which start a specific windows
>> service
>> at application startup and stops the windows service when it does
>> close /
>> exit.
>>
>> Back in Windows XP this was working but it looks like, that non-admin
>> users
>> can't control windows services anymore.
>>
>> Does somebody know how or which rights a user needs to start & stop a
>> windows service? The windows service is already installed.
>>

> I don't know about giving a user the rights to start and stop services
> in general, that seems like too much of a security problem to me.
> I've normally just changed the specific service's security descriptor
> to allow a user or group of users to start and stop it. You can use
> the sc command as an administrator to do this. Here's what I use,
> which gives start/stop/query permissions for servicename to
> Authenticated Users:
>
> sc sdset servicename
> "D:AR(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;LCRPW P;;;AU)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;IU)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOC RSDRCWDWO;;;SY)SAU;FA;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO ;;;WD)"
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