Service Logon Password Corruption

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From: Bruce (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 06:11:07 -0800

We have a service that requires to be run under the Administrator account (not a member of the administrators group, but specifically logged on as Administrator). We are running Windows 2000 Server (latest SP).

Up until recently this worked fine, the service was set up as automatic and restarted whenever the machine was rebooted. Last week, out of nowhere (read no new software was installed according to our operations group), the password for the service was corruted and when the machine is rebooted, natuarlly this service does not start (system event log errors 7013 and 7014 were showing up).

We patched the service (since one of it's jobs is to reboot the machine using InitiateSystemShutdown() ) to reset the password using ChangeServiceConfig() to the proper password right before calling InitiateSystemShutdown(). In testing this worked every time however in the real world, results are not consistent - The service restarts fine on about half of the machine we run it on, the other half has this password corruption, which when manually reset and restrarted works fine.

Anyone have any clues - All ideas are appreciated.

Thanks/

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