How to change user credentials of windows service from command line?

Question

How to change user credentials of windows service from command line?

Answer 1

At least with current versions of Windows, the only way to change the credentials of a Windows service is through the Services control panel or through a program written to use the Windows API.

It may be possible to use Windows PowerShell to do this through a script: the good folks on http://serverfault.com would be delighted to help, I'm sure.

Answer 2

I simply called WMI from powershell to do this.

$Svc = Get-WmiObject win32_service -filter "name='ServiceName'"
$Svc.Change($Null, $Null, $Null, $Null, $Null, $Null, "User", "Password")

Don't forget to restart the service afterwards:

Stop-Service -Name 'ServiceName'
Start-Service -Name 'ServiceName'

For more fun with WMI and services, see Win32_Service Class

Answer 3

sc.exe config "Service Name" obj= "DOMAIN\User" password= "password"

See Shortcut Setting Log-On Credentials for Windows Services » jonathanmalek.com.