Vista Tutorial - How to start a remote service under a different user name

Hello,

I need to be able to start a service a remote server under a different logon
name using PowerShell. If you right click on a service and choose properties
you can click on the 'Log On' tab and by default it uses a system account but
gives you the option to run it as a different account. Is there a way to do
this using PowerShell and probably WMI?

I was looking at the ServiceController.Start Method (String[]) which allows
you to pass parameters but I could not find examples of what parameters you
could pass. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks,
Flea

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Flea# wrote:I haven't checked other options, but there doesn't seem to be any option
to pass along.

I wasn't able to confirm either that the Start method accepted any kind
of argument.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...r_members.aspx

No solution, but it might be possible.

At the very least, maybe the 'log on' name can be changed directly, then
the service started?

Marco

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Try the Change method, you can get more info on it here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384901.aspx


## Specify $null if you are not changing the password.
## Specify an empty string if the service has no password.
## When changing a service from a local system to a network, or from a network
to a
## local system, StartPassword must be an empty string ("") and not $null.

$user="domain\username"
$psw = "password"

$svc = Get-WmiObject win32_service -ComputerName computer -filter "name='alerter'"
$svc.change($null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$user,$psw,$null,$null,$null)
# restart the service
$svc.StopService()
$svc.StartService()




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