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services when i am traveling

Hello,
I am trying to give someone access to restart services on one of my servers while i am traveling. I dont want to give this person admin rights, however i want this person to be able to restart the printer spooler service in my absense. I realize this is a strange question but i am the only adin on my network.

elbereth21

You did not specify your O.S., anyway, you can try like this:
(Original post from rodsaw)
You can grant a user permission to start/stop a service by using the Security Configuration mmc. If you are familiar with gpedit.msc (group policy editor) or the AD group policy tools, you can pick it up pretty easily. With XP they have added a Services section that allows you to specify user or group rights on services. You can allow the user to start, stop, pause, etc., a particular service. See Microsoft's article at:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/default.asp?url=/WINDOWSXP/home/using/productdoc/en/sys_srv_permissions.asp

for the settings and there is a link to using the Security Configuration MMC from that page too.

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SoyYop

Is "Server Operator" so high?
Try to add him to the "Printer Operators" group. Not checked that.

Also, you can go to local policies and give him the right to start or stop services.

Hope this help,

boonedam

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Thank you for the comments. In the interest of time i have just created a local power user. This is working ok. Thanks again

elbereth21

Glad it worked. You're welcome.