Ian Mercer » WCF http://blog.abodit.com Living in the World's Smartest House Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:50:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 WCF and the SYSTEM account http://blog.abodit.com/2009/11/wcf-and-the-system-account/ http://blog.abodit.com/2009/11/wcf-and-the-system-account/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:06:00 +0000 Ian Mercer http://blog.abodit.com/?p=47 More >]]> While trying to move an NT Service over to its own account I hit the following WCF error:-

Exception Alert : System.ServiceModel.AddressAccessDeniedException: HTTP could not register URL http://+:8082/home/. Your process does not have access rights to this namespace (see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70353 for details). —> System.Net.HttpListenerException: Access is denied at System.Net.HttpListener.AddAllPrefixes() at System.Net.HttpListener.Start() at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SharedHttpTransportManager.OnOpen()

The referenced article wasn’t much help but a quick web search led to this article on MSDN which has a better explanation and two ways to solve the problem.  Unfortunately neither is ‘simple’.  In the end I used the source code, built a new .EXE and added it to my setup code.
Seems odd that the SYSTEM account could do this just fine but the safer account I created to run the service cannot.  Why isn’t there a security group for this that I can just add my user to and be done?
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