Problems access with Duplicati.GUI.TrayIcon.exe when Duplicati is running as a Service

[kenkendk]

Hi @StrawberryBill, welcome to the forum

@StrawberryBill

When I am looking to the rights to the Duplicati-server.sqlite File I see that only the System and the Administrators have rights to access this File. After giving my User Change Rights to this File the Tray Icon Starts without any Problems, but after a Service restart my added rights to this File are gone and the Problem occurs again.

That is a lockdown feature intended to secure the database against other users.
You can do the following:

1. Stop Duplicati
2. Grant yourself permissions
3. Create a file named C:\ProgramData\Duplicati\insecure-permissions.txt (it can be empty, contents does not matter)
4. Start Duplicati

When that file is present, Duplicati will not reset the permissions of the folder and database, and your TrayIcon works as before.

@StrawberryBill

But entering Passwords in a File which every User can read is a bad way.

Agree! Besides the solution above, you can also opt to use the Windows Credential Manager to store the password, as described here:

Using the secret provider | Duplicati