Re: Local System Account

Mike:

I really appreciate your quick reponse. I see whne some Windows service is
run, one can specify it to run as localsystem account. Is there a way to run
some .exe (which is not a service) using localsystem account.

Prem

"Miha Pihler [MVP]" wrote:

Hi,

No, administrator is not same as Local System.

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Mike
Microsoft MVP - Windows Security

"Prem Mehrotra" <PremMehrotra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Actaully, I do exactly what you are recommending, but somehow in this
case,
Oracle does not seem to honor group (administrators ) privileges. It
appeatrs that user id is embedded in some Oracle key, as a result only
the
user who ran he command to generate the key can run the application.
Since application runs as "Local System Account", I want to run key
generation commands from Local System Command.

Sorry for repeating the question. To clarify:
1. If I logged on as Adminstrator account, is it same thing as
LocalSystem.

Thanks a lot,

Prem

"Miha Pihler [MVP]" wrote:

Hi,

It is _not_ common to run commands or tasks as Local System. Personally I
never had to use Local System except for demonstration purposes.

Account that you would use to run commands and tools depends on task that
you would like to perform. If the tool requires administrative
permissions
for some reason then you can either use Administrator account or any
other
account that is member of Administrators Group on that computer (e.g. in
your case pmehrotr). If this account is member of Administrators group is
has same permissions as built-in Administrator account.

Note: don't use account that is member of administrator group for
everyday
work. It can be quite dangerous. E.g. if you surf the web or read
infected
e-mail with such account you can quickly infect the computer with a
virus...
Personally I have two accounts. E.g. account "mike" for everyday's work
and
"admin-mike" for administrative work. With second account I e.g. don't
surf
the web and I don't read e-mail with it. If I am logged on to the
computer
as mike (usually I am) I use tools such as runas (command line tool) to
run
a specific program with higher permissions.

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP - Windows Security

"Prem Mehrotra" <PremMehrotra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am a novice to Windows administration. On Windows 2000, several
services
run as local system account. If I were to run some commands manually as
system, how do that. Do I logon as Administrator login locally on the
server
and then execute my commands, or there is something else to be done.

I am an account on the server (pmehrotr) which is in Administrators
group,
but I do not have access to Administrator account per se. Is there any
way
I
can run something as local system account by logging on as my login.
When
I
run something as pmehrotr, I know it is not run as local system
account.

Thanks a lot.

Prem







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