Re: How to enable event logging IIS 5.1

From: Jeffrey Exconde (j.exconde_at_fincad.com)
Date: 07/25/05 

Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:41:06 -0700

Here is what i meant in windows 2003 event logging. But it is not working in
IIS 5.1 Windows XP

Here is the link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncode/html/secure06122003.asp

Tighter ACLs on Event Logs
We also tightened up the ACLs on the event logs to restrict what accounts
can read and write to the logs. Better still, the security of each log is
configured locally through the values in the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog
For example, the Application log Security Descriptor is configured through
the following registry value:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application\CustomSD
And the System log Security Descriptor is configured through the following:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\System\CustomSD
The Security Descriptor for each log is specified by using Security
Descriptor Definition Language (SDDL) syntax. The following is an example
from the Application event log:

O:BAG:SYD:(D;;0xf0007;;;AN)(D;;0xf0007;;;BG)(A;;0xf0007;;;SY)(A;;0x7;;;BA)
(A;;0x7;;;SO)(A;;0x3;;;IU)(A;;0x3;;;SU)(A;;0x3;;;S-1-5-3)
Quick, what is this ACL in English? You can read about SDDL at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/security/security/security_descriptor_string_format.asp.
This string means:

      Entry Meaning
      O:BA Object owner is Built-in Admin (BA).
      G:SY Primary group is System (SY).
      D: This is a DACL, rather than an audit entry or SACL.
      (D;;0xf0007;;;AN) Deny Anonymous (AN) all access.
      (D;;0xf0007;;;BG) Deny Built-in Guests (BG) all access.
      (A;;0xf0005;;;SY) Allow System Read and Clear, including DELETE,
READ_CONTROL, WRITE_DAC, and WRITE_OWNER (indicated by the 0xf0000).
      (A;;0x7;;;BA) Allow Built-in Admin READ, WRITE and CLEAR.
      (A;;0x7;;;SO) Allow Server Operators READ, WRITE and CLEAR.
      (A;;0x3;;;IU) Allow Interactive Users READ and WRITE.
      (A;;0x3;;;SU) Allow Service accounts READ and WRITE.
      (A;;0x3;;;S-1-5-3) Allow Batch accounts (S-1-5-3) READ and WRITE.

The specific event log access mask bits are:

      0x0001 ELF_LOGFILE_READ Permission to read log files.
      0x0002 ELF_LOGFILE_WRITE Permission to write log files.
      0x0004 ELF_LOGFILE_CLEAR Permission to clear log files.

The only time you should see a failure in your application when writing to
the event log is because of an ACL issue. Please do not relax the ACL too
much. Add your own ACE to the SDDL string and then restart the Event Log
service. For example, if your process runs under an account MyAccount, that
has the SID S-1-5-21-853885456-2109860151-3743179773-1190, and you want the
process to write to the Application log, simply add this string to the SDDL
string in the registry:

(A;;0x2;;; S-1-5-21-853885456-2109860151-3743179773-1190)

"Ken Schaefer" <kenREMOVE@THISadOpenStatic.com> wrote in message
news:ulp1wj4jFHA.3692@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> IIS does not natively log logons to the Application Log.
>
> If you change the local security policy (Start -> Run -> secpol.msc) you
> can
> change the options for Windows Logon/Logoff event auditing. This will log
> events to the Security log.
>
> However, if you are doing some custom logging to the Application event log
> (e.g. through your own custom COM object), then you need to enable this.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> --
> IIS Blog: www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/
> Web: www.adopenstatic.com
>
>
> "Jeffrey Exconde" <j.exconde@fincad.com> wrote in message
> news:uz%238ZVyjFHA.4000@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> : We have an application that used IIS. And when some logs in to our
> website
> : it writes something to the application log and we used it for debugging.
> :
> : Sorry, I am not talking about iis log.
> :
> : Thanks
> :
> :
> : "Ken Schaefer" <kenREMOVE@THISadOpenStatic.com> wrote in message
> : news:%23TFVRbnjFHA.3784@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> : > Can you explain what you mean by "event logging"? What do you want to
> log?
> : >
> : > Cheers
> : > Ken
> : >
> : > --
> : > IIS Blog: www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/
> : > Web: www.adopenstatic.com
> : >
> : >
> : > "Jeffrey Exconde" <j.exconde@fincad.com> wrote in message
> : > news:ejpT2VkjFHA.3540@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> : > : Hi,
> : > :
> : > : How do you enable event logging in IIS 5.1
> : > :
> : > : Thanks
> : > :
> : > :
> : >
> : >
> :
> :
>
>

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