Hi monks -

After searching for some time for a working (with my version of perl) version of this I got a version of Win32::Daemon from here (I can't remember how I found the link) :

http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/Win32-Daemon-20131206-PPM518.tar.gz .

I can create / start a service using the 'LocalSystem' account, by omitting the user and password as per the examples. But I can't get it to work with a user and password supplied.

I believe, perhaps wrongly, that the example provided is wrong. It says :

my %service_info = (
        machine =>  '',
        name    =>  'PerlTest',
        display =>  'Oh my GOD, Perl is a service!',
        path    =>  $ServicePath,
        user    =>  '',
        pwd     =>  '',
        description => 'Some text description of this service',
        parameters => $ServiceParams
    );

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I think that the key "pwd" should be "password". In Daemon.pm there is the code 
=item C<password>

The password to be used to log in the service; this is
technically optional, but needs to be specified if C<user> is.

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and in the documentation, "password" is discussed rather than the "pwd" used in the example. I don't have the skill to grok more than about 40% of Daemon.pm, though.

Unfortunately for me it doesn't still does't work using "password", so I'm using both keys at the moment while I try to troubleshoot what I think is an unrelated issue.

I have memories going through this on someone else's code in a previous job several years ago for several days before resolving the issue by changing to "password", so I'm hoping that someone here with the knowledge might be able to deny or confirm my suspicions there, and that if I am right, this question might save someone else some time at a later date.

Thanks!

In reply to Win32::Daemon, local machine account, password by Tharg

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