Secondary Logon

Windows 7 Service Details

Description:

Support for secondary logon. Needed for some applications that need to run under a secondary logon account. Postgres comes to mind. Think of it as Window's version of su, except in Windows, you usually run yourself as an administrator all the time anyway.

Service Description:

Enables starting processes under alternate credentials.

Consequences of Stopping:

Programs utilizing secondary logon will fail to load. If you have security set high, and someone on a non-admin account wants to do something that requires admin privs, you will need to log them out and log in, instead of just using runas. If this service is stopped, this type of logon access will be unavailable. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.
All services listed in 'Required For' will be unable to function

Depends on:

None

Required for: