What do External tasks run as on Windows?

fiquebem

I am running TS 6.5 SP2 on my Windows 2000 laptop. While logged in as mydomain\myuserid, who is only a TS Author, I cannot run "iwsubmit." I get "Permission denied." However, iwsubmit is working fine from inside an External task owned by mydomain\myuserid. I think on UNIX an External task script runs as the task owner (correct?). On Windows it seems to be running as Administrator (which has all the TS roles in my case). Is that indeed the case and is it documented somewhere?

I try to figure out what the External task (Perl) script was running as, so I echoed the "effective user id" ($>). A 0 was printed. Outputting $ENV{USERDOMAIN} and $ENV{USERNAME} printed nothing.

Thanks,

S.

Adam Stoller

On Windows I believe it runs as SYSTEM not Administrator - and I'm not sure if this is officially documented, but it's certainly been bantied around the forums a number of times. Essentially Windows doesn't [yet?] provide the ability to do a seteuid like Unix does.

--fish
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