[Wrapper-user] Re: Wrapper service problem

[Leif M. <le...@ta...>]

Leif Mortenson wrote:

> Jani,
> I have been trying to figure this one out tonight.  According the docs 
> on the CreateService
> API, it should be working as is by doing the following:
> wrapper.ntservice.password=
>
> That said however, I have not been able to start a service running as 
> a user without
> a password set.   You mentioned that you modify the installed service 
> settings manually
> are able to get it to work?  How are you setting it to a blank 
> password.   I tried clearing
> the password from the service properties dialog, but the service 
> startup still fails with
> a login error.   I have been trying to figure out whether or not the 
> password is actually
> being cleared...
>
> I have been trying to get this working under XP Pro SP2.
>
> Cheers,
> Leif
>
> jan...@pe... wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I have a question about wrapper. We try to use it for running java
>> application on Windows 2000 Workstation as windows service.
>> We want to run this service as user xxxx  which has no password.
>>
>> In our .conf file we set option:
>> wrapper.ntservice.account=.\xxxx
>> This option is processed OK by wrapper.
>>
>> What should we do to tell wrapper that this user has no password? We 
>> tryed
>> option:
>> wrapper.ntservice.password=
>> We also tryed without this option (default should be no password).
>>
>> When we ty to start this service it doesn't start and we get a response:
>> The service did not start due to a logon failure.
>>
>> If we manually change logon properties of our service on windows 
>> services
>> (GUI), it starts OK after we delete all * characters in password fields.
>>
>> Since our plan is to install our service on many machines, it is wery 
>> hard
>> job to manually update passwords of service.
>> If you can suggest me any solution of this problem, please let me know!
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jani Kavcic
>>  
>>
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