Topshelf passing username and password to the configuration

Question

One thing i am struggling with is registering a service with a user name and password.

i can hard code the user name and password to the RunAs method and register the service but obviously not practical.

if i

myservice.exe install start -username:Domain\username -password:itsAsecret

or

myservice.exe install start -username "Domain\username" -password "itsAsecret"

the service registers and starts running under the the local system.

how do i pass the username and password to the:

configure.RunAs(username, password)

method?

to get around this i have parsed the commanline my self and then i can :

if (commandlineParameters.ContainsKey("username") && commandlineParameters.ContainsKey("password"))
    configure.RunAs(commandlineParameters["username"], commandlineParameters["password"]); 
else
    configure.RunAsLocalSystem();

but i feel this should work:

 configure.ApplyCommandLine(string.Join(" ", args));

or simply

 configure.ApplyCommandLine();

But when i do the service is registered as Local system

Answer 1

Seems the problem was the command "start" with the installation.

so, to install and start the service it will need to be two separate commands.

myservice.exe install -username:Domain\username -password:itsAsecret
myservice.exe start

This means i can get rid of the parsing code i added and simply

configure.ApplyCommandLine();