App Control: Which Account Does the Crawler Run As?

Products

• Carbon Black App Control (formerly Cb Protection)

Issue/Introduction

What account does the App Control Agent/Crawler use to access the trusted directory?

Environment

• App Control Agent: All Versions
• Trusted Directory Enabled

Resolution

By default, the crawler uses the same account used to run the "Carbon Black App Control Agent" service which by default is NT Authority\Local System