Hi Chuck,
during some testing I suddenly found that I couldn't start an sshd which I had just installed as a service. The reason was that the account I was using for the service didn't have the "Logon as service" user right. Which was puzzeling given that csih calls editrights to add this user right. It turned out that the following test in cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh is incorrect (line 2264): if ! csih_call_winsys32 net localgroup "${admingroup}" | /usr/bin/grep -Eiq "^${user}.?$" The problem occurs if the user account is a domain account. In that case membership in the local administrators group is often only indirectly given by being the member in a domain group which in turn is member in the Administrators group. Example: "DOMAIN\user" is member of "DOMAIN\Domain Admins" "DOMAIN\Domain Admins" is member of "Administrators" However, the `net localgroup' command does not resolve group memberships. `net localgroup Administrators' on a domain member machine returns: Alias name Administrators Comment [...blah...] Members ----------------------------------- Administrator VINSCHEN\Domain Admins The command completed successfully. Calling `net localgroup Administrators /domain' isn't sufficient either, since it also doesn't return indirect memberships. Therefore I think the test for being a member of the admins group is invalid and should just go away. The current behaviour is too surprising in a domain environment. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat