Use NT account only for services

[angelshark]

I would like to use a Windows NT account to run services and scheduled tasks but prevent it from being used to logon or to mount network drives. This account has administrator rights.

How do we go about it?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Spirit]

You create the account as normal then manualy go into each service in admin tools and change the user credentials (assuming of course you are using some flavour of MS).

Stop and start each service to make sure it works properly.

Iain

 

[MKuiper]

Am i missing something? Isn't this just what the built-in LocalSystem account is for?

Marcel

 

[angelshark]

I can't use the LocalSystem account because I must supply a password for it.

 

[MasterRacker]

You should still use a password on the service acount, just set to not expire. In fact, if you're running a number of processes, it's better to set up a different service account for each one to allow you individual control.

MKuiper, the built-in LocalSystem account cannot see network resources, only it's own particular machine. If any of AngelShark's scheduled tasks require newtwork visibility, a domain account is necessary.


Jeff
The future is already here - it's just not widely distributed yet...