Re: Monitor Services on Windows machines

From: Avleen Vig (lists-bugtraq@silverwraith.com)
Date: 02/26/03

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From: Avleen Vig <lists-bugtraq@silverwraith.com>
To: Robert Formanek <robert.formanek@wipo.int>

    On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:01:43AM +0100, Robert Formanek wrote:
    > There you can not only monitor NT services but automatically restart in the case someone has stopped them (or if they are not available anymore for other reasons). This last possibility even exists in dependance on other services/servers.

    Wouldn't restarting services automatically, when you don't know why they
    died, generally be a bad thing?
    The security implications are horrible! :-)

    A trivial bug could quickly become a serious privilege escalation.

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