Re: IIS 6.0 COM App cant write to event log
From: Robb Murdock (rmurdock_at_luxortech.com)
Date: 10/30/03
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:55:31 -0800
John:
Thanks for the heads-up.
I saw that article; but it's absoutely Greek to me. I
don't get the whole SDDL thing.
Any guidance on how to set this would be awesome.
Thanks,
Robb Murdock
rmurdock@luxortech.com
>-----Original Message-----
>Robb,
>
>Have a look at the CustomSD attribute for the Application
Event Log. This
>should allow you to modify the default Security
Descriptor applied for
>access to the individual default Event Logs. See this KB
for more info:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;323076
>
>Note I have not tried to modify this as yet but it's on
my short list of
>things to do to document how our app developers can
continue to log to the
>Event Log. If you are still having issues, drop me a
note and I'll try to
>follow up with you when I do test.
>
>John Alderson
>
>"Robb Murdock" <rmurdock@luxortech.com> wrote in message
>news:075401c39dcd$940c81d0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> Wei-Dong:
>>
>> I am not sure what you are suggesting here. The event
log
>> is used for more than just system administrators. If I
>> write a simple VB test app that uses App.LogEvent, I can
>> log in as the user that I am assigning to IIS and log an
>> event entry.
>>
>> The issue is that IIS, using the same login account
can't
>> write to the event log in IIS 6.0/Win2003 Server Web
>> Edition.
>>
>> All of this works fine on IIS 5.0/Win2K.
>>
>> Am I at a dead end; or is there somewhere else I can
look ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Robb Murdock
>>
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >Hi Robb,
>> >
>> >Thank you for replying!
>> >
>> >In fact, event log is used for the system administrator
>> to maintain the box so that from your test, only the
>> administrators account group can write to
>> >event log. For more information about the right and
>> privilege for event logging, I'd suggest you can find
>> detailed event log security informaton from
>> >the article from Msdn.microsoft.com. Please go to:
>> >http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-
>> us/debug/base/event_logging_security.asp?frame=true
>> >
>> >Please feel free to let me know if you have any further
>> questions.
>> >
>> >Does this answer your question? Thank you for using
>> Microsoft NewsGroup!
>> >
>> >Wei-Dong Xu
>> >Microsoft Product Support Services
>> >Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
>> >This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties,
and
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>> >
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>
>.
>
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