Thanks Karl (and George Weaver) for these notes.
Jason; seems like a useful addition to the readme don't you think?
Regards, Dave.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl M [mailto:karlm30@hotmail.com]
> Sent: 15 April 2003 22:39
> To: Dave Page; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Cc: pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org
> Subject: RE: [CYGWIN] XP Pro cygipc/PostgreSQL test report
>
>
> Hi All...
>
> In order to start services under a particular user account
> (Windows 2000,
> XP, for NT I don't remember) you must give the user the
> "login as a service"
> right.
>
> In XP Home Edition that is a bit tricky...you can't do it
> from the local
> security policy snap-in becuase it is not there. You have to
> use the program
> NTRights.exe to do it on XP Home Edition. This program is part of the
> Windows 2000 resource kit.
>
> After you assign the "logon as a service" right, you can run
> services under
> that user account just fine.
