Restarting Services Without Admin Rights

[Guest Dragon]

Hi,

 

Is there a way to assign permissions to a regular user account to

start/stop/restart particular/all services? We have an application which, at

time, requires that we restart it's services. I rather not give someone

admin or power user permissions just to restart these services.

 

Thank you.

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Restarting Services Without Admin Rights

 

 

"Dragon" <noSpam_baadil@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> Hi,

>

> Is there a way to assign permissions to a regular user account to

> start/stop/restart particular/all services? We have an application which,

> at time, requires that we restart it's services. I rather not give someone

> admin or power user permissions just to restart these services.

>

> Thank you.

 

You can do it indirectly. Use the Task Scheduler to run the

following batch file once every five minutes:

@echo off

set Semaphore=d:\User Data\Semaphore\Flag.txt

if not exist "%Semaphore%" goto :eof

del "%Semaphore%"

net stop {Servicename}

net start {Servicename}

net send {UserName} "Service {ServiceName} was restarted at %time%"

 

Now give the user a shortcut that lets him to create the

semaphore file. Also make sure that the messenger service

runs on your server and on the user's machine.

[Guest Dragon]

Re: Restarting Services Without Admin Rights

 

Thank you Pegasus. I will give it a try.

 

 

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message

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>

> "Dragon" <noSpam_baadil@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> news:%236E7GkIsIHA.5576@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> Hi,

>>

>> Is there a way to assign permissions to a regular user account to

>> start/stop/restart particular/all services? We have an application which,

>> at time, requires that we restart it's services. I rather not give

>> someone admin or power user permissions just to restart these services.

>>

>> Thank you.

>

> You can do it indirectly. Use the Task Scheduler to run the

> following batch file once every five minutes:

> @echo off

> set Semaphore=d:\User Data\Semaphore\Flag.txt

> if not exist "%Semaphore%" goto :eof

> del "%Semaphore%"

> net stop {Servicename}

> net start {Servicename}

> net send {UserName} "Service {ServiceName} was restarted at %time%"

>

> Now give the user a shortcut that lets him to create the

> semaphore file. Also make sure that the messenger service

> runs on your server and on the user's machine.

>