How to give rights to one user for the restart of a service

Question

It's there a way i can give the rights to a specific user, for restart a specific service on windows server 2008 ?

Solution 1

You can use the sc command to set permissions on a specific service.

The format is a little difficult to understand, but first you will need to find the user or group's SID to use the command (something like "S-1-5-21-....").

sc myserver sdset spooler D:(A;;RPWP;;;place-sid-here)

A couple notes on that command:

• RP Allows service start
• WP Allows service stop

Replace myserver with your server's name and spooler with the service you want to edit.

More information is available at the following locations:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc742037(WS.10).aspx

http://msmvps.com/blogs/erikr/archive/2007/09/26/set-permissions-on-a-specific-service-windows.aspx

Solution 2

Waiting for my VMs to spin up, but it looks like this should work (from reading this)

• Open group policy to Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\System Services
• Edit the service in question, enable "define policy setting" and then "edit security"
• Add the user and give them "read" and "start, stop, and pause" rights

I'll swing by after I've tried this out, but good question! I had no idea this had been added.

This might also work: Remotely restarting a service for a non-administrator user

Comments

[Spence]

Pretty much the same thing: serverfault.com/questions/15147/…

[Vadzim]

Possible duplicate of How do I give a domain user permission to start and stop a Tomcat service?

[Cédric Boivin]

When i go Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings there is no System Services :-(

[Doug Luxem]

Hmm...maybe an R2/Win7 feature of Group Policy? Unfortunately, I don't have a way to test downlevel but mine matches @Kara.

[Kara Marfia]

That's very odd! You're on the domain controller, and it's 2008 server?

[Cédric Boivin]

No i am not on the domain controller, i am on the server directly, because it's a custom service, install only on this machine.

[Will]

Additionally you need to prefix the entires with D: as per my answer here. In your example, this would be: sc myserver sdset spooler D:(A;;RPWP;;;place-sid-here)

[Alexander Gonchiy]

Doesn't work on Win2008 R2 - there is no "System Services" item.