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Luca Matteis
Asked: 2010-08-13 00:59:16 +0800 CST

How do I login as a SYSTEM on a Windows XP computer?

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I need to login as SYSTEM because my Apache runs a process as a SYSTEM (that's what I see in Task Manager) and I need to run that process from the command-line (psexec.exe) to accept the EULA popup, otherwise it will just hang on the Apache side.

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  1. Best Answer

    As you cannot log in interactively as SYSTEM your best bet is to temporarily run Apache under a different account, accept the EULA (obviously for some other package, because Apache doesn't have such a popup), the reset it back to the SYSTEM account.

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  2. psexec -s will run things as System but interactively on the current desktop.

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  3. You can have apache accept the EULA by running psexec with the -accepteula parameter

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  4. Depending on which OS you use you can use the at command to schedule a job.

    First get the local time with the "time" command.

    Then schedule a job one minute later from the command line:

    C:\Users\wilfriedvs>at 10:01 /interactive cmd.exe

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