I have a Windows 2003 server and need to give rights for a local user to restart a service on the server without giving them admin rights. Anyone got any idea how to do this?

I am guessing that  it would involve the local security policy but not sure how to implement this. Any help much appreciated.

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Local and group policy can be applied to services depending on your setup.  Is the user already able to logon to the server or will this be remote?

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Andy

The user already has a local account on the server.

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Good! (only because i'm not sure what other permissions would be needed remotely)

Have a look at:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324802/

 

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Andy

Andy,

Thanks for that but i was wondering if there was a way to do it on the server local policy itself rather than applying a group policy at OU level. It's only going to effect one server so really don't want to create a seperate OU just for that one server. I'll keep looking and see if i can dig anything up.

 Cheers

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325349 HOW TO: Grant Users Rights to Manage Services in Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;325349

Method 2 if you dont want to do it by GPO

 

 

You could always only allow that server rights to apply that policy, then you wouldn't have to set it locally or create a separate OU.  This gives you better central management as well.

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Andy

Thanks for the feedback guys, think i am gonna try Wrldbfree's suggestion.

 

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