Re: W2K/WMI service (WinMgmt.exe) accessing an ODBC connection

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From: Manfred Braun (aa_at_bb.cc)
Date: 08/15/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 22:10:22 +0200

Hi All,

another would be to use a COM[+] component and run this declaratively with
another user [that which is allowed to to the odbc connection]. This
component can also be written as *.wsc component/file.

May be, this helps. I wrote a GUI component, configured to run "as the
interactive user" to allow a wmi-process, which was started remotely, to
display a message to the user.

Best regards,
Manfred Braun

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Mannheim
Germany

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"Roger Abell" <mvpNOSpam@asu.edu> wrote in message
news:O%2345R0hgEHA.2468@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I have never heard of WMI running other than with its
> predefined account settings, and frankly, doubt whether
> this is possible. WMI is a rather deeply connected, core
> service, with need to access very many places in the OS.
> From you sketch, it does not seem that it is a matter of
> access to the ODBC connection, but to what ODBC
> connects, and changing to another local account would
> not be changing that anyway.
> You may need to look into the whole strategy here, like
> whether the evernt might need to be causing instancing
> of some con component that you can specific launchs as
> a specific account, and/or what account is specified in
> the ODBC connection to be used at the other end of the
> connection, etc.
> --
> Roger Abell
> Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
> MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA
> "Anthony LaMark" <anthony@eXcSoftware.com> wrote in message
> news:eT0MZqZgEHA.596@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have a WMI Event Provider (hosted by WinMgmt since it is on Windows
> 2000)
> > which spawns another process (cmd.exe which invokes cscript.exe [i.e. a
> > JScript]). This spawned process needs to open an ODBC connection to a
SQL
> > server on another computer in the network. WMI is currently running as
> > (i.e. "Log on As") LocalSystem (again this is W2K). I tried to change
the
> > "Log on As" to a local system account that has the proper priviledges to
> the
> > ODBC connection. I verified that this account had the "Log on as a
> service"
> > local policy. When I try to start WMI using the new account though it
> fails
> > to start. The event log did not offer any clues. Does any one have any
> > thoughts on:
> > 1. What might be making WMI fail to start when it is changed from
> > LocalSystem to another user account (do I need to change something in
> > dcomcfg?)
> > 2. If WMI has any dependency services and if so, do they need to be
> changed
> > to the other user account as well?
> > 3. What security auditing can I enable to troubleshoot this type of
> > problem?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Anthony LaMark
> > eXc Software
> >
> >
>
>

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