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Reputation: 847

Change logon account of a service using powershell when password has special symbols

I'm running following powershell script to change logon user account of a remote service and then start it.

$result = $remoteService.Change($null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$logonAccount, $logonPassword,$null,$null,$null)

    if ($result.ReturnValue -eq '0') 
    {
        write-host "logon account changed"
        $remoteService.StartService();
    } 
    else 
    {
        write-host "Error: $result.ReturnValue"
    };

If my password contains only alphanumeric chars, I can see that service starts as shown in result below

logon account changed
ReturnValue      : 0

However another account includes password with special characters like @, # and - , if I use this account my service start fails with error code 15.

logon account changed
ReturnValue      : 15

Same is the result of I use sc command (example)

sc \\servername config servicename obj= domain\accountname password= w@e#dF-sxs32
sc \\servername  start servicename

[SC] StartService FAILED 1069:
The service did not start due to a logon failure.

I can manually change the logon user of service and start it successfully from the Windows services.msc UI using the same account as mentioned above. So I thought issue could be with the password.

I have struggled a lot with this. can anyone please help. Thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8453

Answers (1)

Sergei Zinovyev
Sergei Zinovyev

Reputation: 1286

I checked, your sc command works very well.

sc \\mycomp config myservice obj= mycomp\User1 password= w@e#dF-sxs32

So, the issue is not in password with @#-_

It seems your domain\accountname user does not have rights or privileges to run any service on the servername server.

See MSDN about Add the Log on as a service Right to an Account https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794944(v=ws.10).aspx

Upvotes: 1

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