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@@ -632,6 +632,29 @@ second run reporting `unchanged` / `already present` and leaving `install.json`
 `--verify` run over an installed host writing nothing and preserving the `link` section, and a
 tampered binary detected by hash and replaced with no stray staging file left behind.
 
+**Service registration itself stayed unverified until Phase 4** — a relocated run deliberately
+skips it, `sc create` needs elevation, and systemd needs a Linux host. It has now been run for
+real, on a privileged Debian 12 container with systemd as PID 1, installing into `/usr/bin`,
+`/etc/runicgateway` and `/var/lib/runicgateway` as root: the unit is written and `enable`d, the
+service comes up `active, enabled` as the unprivileged `runicgateway` user, `sidecar.toml` lands
+`600` owned by it, the database is created under `/var/lib` (so the `UOLINK_DB_PATH` pin works),
+`/health` answers protocol 3, and `uninstall` takes the service, the unit, the binary and the
+account away again while leaving `sidecar.toml`, the database and every overlay file in the ServUO
+tree untouched.
+
+Doing that found one bug that only a real service host could show, fixed in
+[installer#8](https://gitea.whitlocktech.com/RunicGateway/installer/pulls/8): **`user_created` has
+to be sticky.** `service::prepare` answers "did *this run* create the account", which is false from
+the second run on, so recording it verbatim made the field describe the run rather than the state —
+the same class as Phase 1's two live-run bugs. It rewrote `install.json` on an identical re-run,
+and it made `uninstall` (which removes only an account it created) silently leave behind the very
+user this tool had added. The record now inherits `true` from a prior record naming the same
+account, and only that one. Windows never showed it because the SCM's virtual account is not
+something the installer creates.
+
+**Still unverified: the Windows SCM half.** `sc create` demands elevation, and this machine's
+automation runs unelevated; the systemd half above is the platform that could be driven end to end.
+
 ### Phase 3 — patch tier (opt-in)
 
 Everything in §2.2. Detect applicability, dry-run, apply, record, warn about the core rebuild, and