Re: asp folder security newbie question

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNoSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 05/30/03 

Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 01:12:45 -0700

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=271071
may start to get you oriented. This has been changed
recently and is now closer to reality but it does not outline
all the specifics, as there are very many cases, especially
varying due to process model used by the web app, and
whether anonymous or not, and whether you instance
custom components, etc.
You may have missed out permissions for the IWAM
account causing failure of the write.

"bbxrider" <bbxrider1@attbi.com> wrote in message
news:OXlgqGjJDHA.2232@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> using my own win2k adv server, iis5.0, fpe, fp2000 to create web pages,
> running as intranet on my lan now for developement and testing
> i'm an experienced programmer but new to web programming
>
> when i publish a web from fp2000 to a virtual website i created with iis,
> part of the directory structure it creates is
> ...\inetpub\wwwroot\webname\_private\ and there's a bunch of other folders
> under \webname\
>
> the _private folder is usually used (default) if your fp2000 webpage is
> collecting data in a form and you specify a text file to receive it. ok
that
> works fine
> then i created an asp routine that trys to write user collected data to a
> file in that same _private directory but i get a permission denied when
> trying to create/open the file for writing???? asp is somehow running
under
> another account other than iis account for webaccess?
> is there a generally accepted folder structure within iis for use by asp,
> and how do you set the permissions/sharing etc on it???
> what process/user does asp run under?
>
>

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