What permisions do I need to enable to allow the IUSR_ to
execute a command line program in IIS 6?
Eg, "cmd /c dir"
This works when logged onto web site as administrator but
not anonymously?

--Andrew

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It's bad idea to do this.
anyway, have you try grant iusr / iis_wpg read and execute permissions ?

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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.tryiis.com/
http://support.microsoft.com/
http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/



"Andrew" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> What permisions do I need to enable to allow the IUSR_ to
> execute a command line program in IIS 6?
> Eg, "cmd /c dir"
> This works when logged onto web site as administrator but
> not anonymously?
>
> --Andrew

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On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:31:14 -0700, "Andrew"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>What permisions do I need to enable to allow the IUSR_ to
>execute a command line program in IIS 6?
>Eg, "cmd /c dir"
>This works when logged onto web site as administrator but
>not anonymously?
>
>--Andrew

Andrew,

By default the IUSR account in IIS6 does not have access to files in
the %windir%\System32 folder.

PRB: IIS 6.0: CGI Code That Calls External Applications May Fail
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=311481


Regards,

Paul Lynch
MCSE

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>-----Original Message-----
>On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:31:14 -0700, "Andrew"
><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
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>Andrew,
>
>By default the IUSR account in IIS6 does not have access
to files in
>the %windir%\System32 folder.
>
>PRB: IIS 6.0: CGI Code That Calls External Applications
May Fail
>http://support.microsoft.com/?id=311481
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Paul Lynch
>MCSE
>.
>

Thanks for the link, turns out that when I set the
permissions they were not always inherited from the top
level dir! I suppose I should have told it to replace
permissions on all files and subfolders etc! It's working
now.

-Andrew

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I know, I always like to avoid it, but my client insists
on using it!
It turns out while I had the correct permissions, they
weren't being inherited from top level dirs. Thanks for
the info!

-- Andrew

>-----Original Message-----
>It's bad idea to do this.
>anyway, have you try grant iusr / iis_wpg read and
execute permissions ?
>
>--
>Regards,
>Bernard Cheah
>http://www.tryiis.com/
>http://support.microsoft.com/
>http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/
>
>
>
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