Hi,

When someone from the web visits an IIS website they are given guest
account acccess I would assume? What account is this name under in a w2k3 web
server? How can I give a guest user more rights in IIS?

Thanks,

the default IIS guest account is IUSR_MachineName - where MachineName is the
NetBIOS name of the server

you can either give more rights to the user under the account options and/or
machine and grop policies, or preferably you can configure which account is
used by anonymous users under IIS Management->Site Properties->Directory
Security->Anonymous access and authentication control

Be sure not to grant too much access where it's not needed though - it's
posible elevating this account can make security holes in, say, ASP apps far
worse than they would otherwise be.


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Jason Brown
Microsoft GTSC, IIS

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