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jnewman
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United Kingdom
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Posted - Oct 01 2009 :  1:25:08 PM  Show Profile  Visit jnewman's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Is it better to have for example a web server service running under SYSTEM, or a local user account only in the Users group?
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codingplanet
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Posted - Oct 01 2009 :  3:50:47 PM  Show Profile  Visit codingplanet's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Ideally you want to run a web server as a dedicated user with very little privileges.
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Aaron Cake
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Posted - Oct 03 2009 :  11:14:05 AM  Show Profile  Visit Aaron Cake's Homepage  Send Aaron Cake an ICQ Message  Send Aaron Cake a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Yep. If you are talking about IIS, the install will create an IUSER account for this purpose. But it's a lot less secure under NT4 then later versions because the default permissions everywhere else are a bit more lax.

You should not run them under the SYSTEM account.
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jnewman
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Posted - Oct 04 2009 :  07:56:49 AM  Show Profile  Visit jnewman's Homepage  Reply with Quote
So my IRC and FTP servers should be running under a local user account too? I'm using a small web server called Abyss by Aprelium.
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jnewman
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Posted - Oct 04 2009 :  08:02:02 AM  Show Profile  Visit jnewman's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Also, I experienced something very odd with NT4. Instead of typing it again: http://josephn.net/scrapbook?entry=weird_crash_nt4
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Aaron Cake
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Posted - Oct 07 2009 :  10:17:17 AM  Show Profile  Visit Aaron Cake's Homepage  Send Aaron Cake an ICQ Message  Send Aaron Cake a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
You should run these servers under a limited local user account (or a domain account with similar rights). Then assign the minumum set of file/directory permissions for the services to actually work. No idea about the crash, but have you tried the latest version of PHP?
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jnewman
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Posted - Oct 11 2009 :  12:10:28 PM  Show Profile  Visit jnewman's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Yep, it's running the latest version of PHP. Maybe the FastCGI stuff isn't fully compatible on NT4
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