How to Install a service as the current account in c#

Question

In my installer code I'm currently using:

 processInstaller.Account = ServiceAccount.LocalSystem;

But one of our clients has a proxy configured so the service account can't access the internet. Currently we have to configure all the services manually after install but if we could have them automatically use the credentials of the installing user we wouldn't have to do this. Does anyone know if this can be done?

Thanks, Richard

Answer 1

You can set the Account type to user and then specify a username and password.

processInstaller.Account = ServiceAccount.User;
processInstaller.User = "domain\username";
processInstaller.Password = "Password";

Answer 2

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.serviceprocess.serviceaccount.aspx Prompt user to enter user account and password he wish to install with, and set those credential to account