Special Permission for directories

This questions relates ot setting permissions for the NETWORK SERVICE role for certain folders in a blog project.

I am using dasBlog (www.dasBlog.net) and have successfully installed it on my local machine as well as a server which I control. Now I would like to set up a blog on my discountASP site. However, the permission manager does not seem to allow me to give the NETWORK SERIVCE read/write permissions.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

DiscountASP does not use the NETWORK SERVICE role to run web sites. Each site uses its own IUSR and ASPNET users to run ASP and ASP.NET applications respectively. These users have read and write permissions by default to all files and folders on their respective sites. So there is no need to change or modify permissions.

If you are getting some permissions error, create a support ticket.

Aristotle

DiscountASP.NET
www.DiscountASP.NET

 

Hello - this thread just answered a question of mine. ;D However, in trying to solve it through the control panel, I noticed that the default user listed in the Permissions Manager, 'anonymous', had default read/write to all directories as well. I assume this is the equivalent ASPNET account, or is it different? I initially tried to disable write at the root level, and as is warned in the overview text above it, inheritance took over and I couldn't enable write for any particular subdirectories.

Does this not open up any security issues, anonymous having write access to everything by default? I'm not fully up-to-date on best practice for this stuff. If so, what are the potential issues? Is it better then to disable write, but if so, how do we enable it on specific subdirectories?

Thanks in advance!