[freenet-dev] Adding a user for Freenet breaks startup-without-login

[Florent Daignière]

* Ian Clarke <ian.clarke at gmail.com> [2008-03-17 14:31:19]:

> If it is standard practice for services to run as SYSTEM then we
> should probably do that too.  We don't need to be spending our time
> and energy reinventing how to install software on Windows.
> 
> Ian.

That was my original view too but toad managed to convince me that we
would get freenet categorized as "spyware" if the user can't kill it
from the process manager...

> 
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Matthew Toseland
> <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > How hard would it be to run Freenet as the user that installed it?
> >
> >  ----- toad at zceUWxlSaHLmvEMnbr4RHnVfehA ----- 2008.03.15 - 23:11:45GMT -----
> >
> >  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 -----
> >
> >  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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