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aquanight: I certainly can't say I know what was going through the heads of the MS developers (I say that a lot :P) but I've never previously run into a problem running services as a user and I make it a normal practice for any services that can take input from the net, so I don't know if I see ...

I wish I had happier news to report. There is good news, and that is that I got it working.

The bad news is twofold. First, it requires the heinously complex method of giving a user administrative rights for a single service I mentioned in the previous post. However, I can write a tutorial for ...

I believe I found the problem, but not yet a solution. I'm going to make a few guesses here so take it with a grain of salt. Only the devs know if my guesses are right.

The problem seems to stem from the fact that this is not a normal service executable, but a hybrid of a normal executable and a ...

Okay Jobe, thanks. I'll be sure to report on any additional information I come up with as well.

And I too have no interest in modifying the source both because of losing support here as well as the hassles of rolling changes into newer versions. Although worse comes to worse I might do a self ...

Ron2k: Aye, I understand. At the very least my post will alert others who run their services as I do in the future to beware of potential problems with Unreal. But I haven't given up yet and if all else fails I'll submit it as a request to the tracker with no expectations. Obviously if I find a ...

This is a new installation of UnrealIRCd 3.2.5 pre-built package w/ SSL (Unreal3.2.5-SSL.exe) on a Win2k Server SP4 system. The SSL certificate is not (currently) encrypted since it's being run as a service (as per the FAQ). (Whenever I mention services in this post I'm referring to Windows services ...