Re: ASP IIS components with IWAM

From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (levinson_k@excite.com)
Date: 02/05/03 

From: "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <levinson_k@excite.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:05:11 -0500

IUSR is used if the "application isolation" setting on the script or folder
containing the script is set to "low" in the IIS MMC. Medium or high uses
IWAM.

http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#iwam

Enabling auditing can help you see who is using what... useful in improving
security as well as troubleshooting permissions:

http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#auditing

"angelo" <drinkwater@videotron.ca> wrote in message
news:0b4101c2ccb7$3739ede0$8af82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA03...
> I have an ASP app running on xp iis 5.1 which calls a dll
> written in vb 6.0. The app runs in high isolation with
> anonymous access. According to the docs, since my app is
> in high isolation with anonymous access, the account used
> by IIS is IWAM_machinename. Now, my app has several
> folders for the various files needed (/htm, /images ...)
> One of these folders is a /temp folder where my dll
> creates temporary files. I have installed this app at all
> of my clients without any problems. All, but one that is.
> This client was getting permission errors when my dll was
> creating files in the /temp folder. I gave the folder the
> IWAM_machinename security but that didn't work. So I gave
> the IUSR_machinemame and that worked. Why ? It should be
> using the IWAM_machinename. And besides that, why does it
> work sometimes without IWAM or IUSR - don't all
> permissions come from IWAM ? Please help - thanks in
> advance.

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