Question

I’m trying to start a service as a user and things work fine, until I try a user that doesn’t have a password. Then, it fails to start (due to log-on error).

Am I doing something wrong or is this ‘by design’?

The code to register this service:

    SC_HANDLE schService = CreateService(          schSCManager,                    strNameNoSpaces,               strServiceName,                    SERVICE_ALL_ACCESS,                SERVICE_WIN32_OWN_PROCESS,          SERVICE_AUTO_START,             SERVICE_ERROR_NORMAL,               szPath,                           NULL,                              NULL,                           NULL,                             strUser,         (strPassword.IsEmpty())?NULL:strPassword); 

Answer 1

It may be due to an OS security requirement or security policy. Check the security policies to see if anything is relevant there.