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I am trying to install a program and it ask to me for a user credential, if I enter the user and password with which I start session in windows which has administrator permissions I get an error saying that the account name is invalid and recommends me to enter a service account
How can i create a services account?
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You can create a new local user account and setup the password to never expire, add the user with whatever required permissions to accomplish your service task, then where your application requests it enter it in as computername\username (substitute actual here)
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This was the solution, I just created a new local account with setting password never expired and then I had to go to the Local Security Policy > Local Policies > User Rights Assignment and configure the account I had created as Log on as a Services and later I could install the program, thanks for supporting me
Glad to hear, you're welcome.
@Eliezer Maduro
Hi,
If you subsequently restart the installation and specify the same user name but a different password, you receive a "user credentials are not valid" error.
Use operating system utilities to determine whether the user account exists on the computer. If necessary, change the password. Then continue the installation.
Hope above information can help you.
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