From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 58273 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2019 22:12:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 58259 invoked by uid 89); 9 Jan 2019 22:12:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=screen, hide, deny, H*c:alternative X-HELO: mout.gmx.com Received: from mout.gmx.com (HELO mout.gmx.com) (74.208.4.200) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 09 Jan 2019 22:12:20 +0000 X-UI-Sender-Class: 214d933f-fd2f-45c7-a636-f5d79ae31a79 Received: from mail-lj1-f170.google.com ([209.85.208.170]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmxus002 [74.208.5.15]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MX1Qw-1gkXTR2CDk-00VuSl for ; Wed, 09 Jan 2019 23:12:17 +0100 Received: by mail-lj1-f170.google.com with SMTP id k15-v6so7856227ljc.8 for ; Wed, 09 Jan 2019 14:12:16 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Bill Stewart Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 22:12:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: csih_create_privileged_user - use of SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-SW-Source: 2019-01/txt/msg00053.txt.bz2 Greetings, /usr/share/doc/csih/ChangeLog has the following note for 2015-04-02: * cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh (csih_create_privileged_user): Also add SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight to the service user. otherwise it will be shown on the logon screen in some versions of Windows. >From this comment, it would seem that the only purpose of adding this user right ("Deny log on locally") is to hide the user from the logon screen. Is this correct? In other words, is preventing the account from showing in the logon screen the _only_ reason for adding SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight? Thanks, Bill -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple