One thing I noticed recently about Win 2k3 Server, and IIS6, is that it
defaults to Read-Only permissions at the NTFS file and folders property
level. I discovered this, when trying to get the FileSystemObject to write
to a text file. All the permissions were set ok, but I discovered every
folder and file in the wwwroot has it's file properties set as Read-Only.
So, I changed this for the file I was trying to access, and everything
worked fine.

Problem:
I came back to work on my application today, and something had set the file
properties back to Read-Only. Does anyone know what would of done this, and
how to disable it?

Thanks!

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Are you using Frontpage Server Extensions?

Cheers
Ken

"AspDotNetDeveloper" <aspdotnetdeveloper@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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: One thing I noticed recently about Win 2k3 Server, and IIS6, is that it
: defaults to Read-Only permissions at the NTFS file and folders property
: level. I discovered this, when trying to get the FileSystemObject to write
: to a text file. All the permissions were set ok, but I discovered every
: folder and file in the wwwroot has it's file properties set as Read-Only.
: So, I changed this for the file I was trying to access, and everything
: worked fine.
:
: Problem:
: I came back to work on my application today, and something had set the
file
: properties back to Read-Only. Does anyone know what would of done this,
and
: how to disable it?
:
: Thanks!
:
:

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Allowing a web-based request the ability to modify the local filesystem is a
privileged operation.  Thus, you should take care in only allowing this
permission in a limited scope, hopefully outside of the URL namespace such
that people can't both upload and execute arbitrary code (like hacker tools)
on your server and take it over.

--
//David
IIS
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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"AspDotNetDeveloper" <aspdotnetdeveloper@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uGmMJuQ5DHA.2432@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
One thing I noticed recently about Win 2k3 Server, and IIS6, is that it
defaults to Read-Only permissions at the NTFS file and folders property
level. I discovered this, when trying to get the FileSystemObject to write
to a text file. All the permissions were set ok, but I discovered every
folder and file in the wwwroot has it's file properties set as Read-Only.
So, I changed this for the file I was trying to access, and everything
worked fine.

Problem:
I came back to work on my application today, and something had set the file
properties back to Read-Only. Does anyone know what would of done this, and
how to disable it?

Thanks!

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