On Mar 17, 2008, at 11:45 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote:

> How hard would it be to run Freenet as the user that installed it?

Or maybe there is a flag to make a user not login-able?

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Robert Hailey

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>
> ----- toad at zceUWxlSaHLmvEMnbr4RHnVfehA ----- 2008.03.15 -  
> 23:11:45GMT -----
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> Clearly running as SYSTEM is bad. However every other service runs  
> as SYSTEM,
> if we just install a service to run Freenet, it will run as SYSTEM. We
> decided this is bad so we made it run as a custom user for Freenet.
>
> ----- Anonymous ----- 2008.03.15 - 23:25:43GMT -----
>
> That's not right Toad. My computer won't just automatically boot up  
> now. I
> have to press the user button. Just installing freenet did this to my
> computer without telling me.
>
> ----- cptn_insano at _g2YxqIynCrs2bcwLGQkr+0b544 ----- 2008.03.17 -
> 13:58:17GMT -----
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> You mean it boots up but no longer logs you in automatically.
> Many windows boxes will login automatically if there is only one  
> user account.
> That is the default behavior unless steps have been taken to secure  
> the
> system.
> Not using Welcome Screen & requiring Ctrl-Alt-Del to login being two  
> examples.

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