JSI Tip 1806. What are the minimum permissions for IIS to work?

Jerold Schulman

November 14, 1999

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If you intend to change permissions on IIS related directories, you must grant the anonymous user, IUSR_, the following:

  Directory

Permissions

  InetpubWwwroot

READ (RX)

  %SystemRoot%

READ (RX)

  %SystemRoot%System32

READ (RX)

  %SystemRoot%System32Inetsrv

READ (RX)

  %SystemRoot%System32InetsrvAsp (and all subdirectories)

READ (RX)

  Program FilesCommon Files (and all subdirectories)          

READ (RX)


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