Re: Giving developer rights to access IIS 5.0

From: Bernard (qbernard_at_hotmail.com.discuss)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:55:06 +0800

Yes, you can play around with MetaACLs to grant related access permissions. 

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Bernard Cheah
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"John Alderson" <jalderson.nodata@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> "rlim" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4471AF99-1BDB-40B2-8C70-D7C21B2BF4A7@microsoft.com...
> > We have a junior program developer who is creating .net web
applications,
> we have IIS installed on his XP for him to test the applications.
Currently
> he is set as power user/debug user/VS developer.  We do not want to set
him
> as local administrator, but it seems like that is only way he could access
> IIS from MMC. I might of missed a KB article or some of the threads on
this
> forum regards to this issue. If you have any suggestions or solutions
would
> be deeply appreciated. Thank you.
> -------------------------
> rlim,
>
> The documented answer to this from Microsoft is "you must be an
> Administrator".  However, like you and many others, I have had a strong
> desire to maintain some semblance of operational sanity with IIS servers.
> To satisfy that need, I've put together a set of configurations that you
can
> use to grant limited IIS Administrator privileges without making these
folks
> full-fledged Administrators of the Operating System.
>
> See my website at http://www.johnalderson.com - choose "IIS" from the left
> hand menu then choose "IIS Operators".
>
> Or, use this link for a non-framed direct link =>
> http://www.johnalderson.com/IIS/iisoperators.htm
>
> This technique will allow folks to add and modify virtual directories and
> even websites, depending on what metabase level you make ACL changes.  I
> have used this method in production environments with success.  That said,
> the methods are certainly not perfect but I welcome feedback and/or
> scenarios to research.
>
> John Alderson
>

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