Grant User Rights to Start/Stop Windows Services

If you are an Administrator of Windows 2000/2003/xp operating system & need to grant rights for a user to Start/Stop an Windows Service, please follow the below steps.

1. Download & install Subinacl tool from microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b&displaylang=en

2. In Command Prompt,

SUBINACL /SERVICE [\\MachineName\]ServiceName /GRANT=[DomainName\]UserName[=Access]

where [\\MachineName\], [DomainName\] & [=Access] are optional

Example:

E:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools>subinacl /service outlookmessengerLS /grant=xyzuser

outlookmessengerLS : new ace for xyzuser

outlookmessengerLS: 1 change(s)

Elapsed Time: 00 00:00:00

Done: 1, Modified 1, Failed 0, Syntax errors 0

Last Done : outlookmessengerLS

For more details:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325349