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Cool update to the previous post on the Windows Server 2003 SP1 SCM ACL Issue.
Microsoft actually does have some functionality in SC to handle viewing/manipulating the SCM ACL. Cheer!!!
It isn’t something that you can see in the help from SC, but Steve Patrick under his tech4steve@comcast.net address posted a link to a blog entry on [...]

The girlfriend is sleeping because she doesn’t feel well.
It is muggy and nasty outside so I don’t want to play in the yard. Especially since I did a lot of yard work yesterday and got pretty crispy fried.
I don’t feel like doing some tile work I need to do in the house.
So I am sitting [...]

There is a fairly cool update in Windows Server 2003 SP1 that is currently biting folks.
In SP1 Microsoft took the ACL that always existed on the Service Control Manager and made it useful. They made it so you can now modify that ACL to control who can access the SCM, previously you could enumerate the [...]

SvcUtil has been updated to work with Windows Server 2003 SP1 to allow someone who has been delegated rights to a specific service to work with that service even if they aren’t logged on locally to the machine or an administrator on the machine.