Permissions - giving "everyone" full permissions is bad ?

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From: Tony Fonager (fonager_at_newsgroups.nospam)
Date: 07/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:58:02 -0700

Hi all,

I have developed an ASP.NET application, on my windows xp using visual studio 2003 professional.

Now I want to deploy this app to a windows 2003 web edition server, so my customers can test the app.

I have prepared a new site on the windows 2003 server, and copied all files over to this server.

It works perfectly, but when my app tries to create / write to a TXT file, it throws an "System.UnauthorizedAccessException" exception. If I test ASPX files which does not try to create a TXT file, I get no exception.

So I go into the properties for the dir where this TXT file is, and adds ASPNET user and gives it "modify" permissions - no luck!

I then do the same with the "IUSR_<machine>" user - no luck!

Finally, in total desperation, I add the "Everyone" user and gives it FULL access, and then my ASP.NET application works ...

My question is now :

1) How do I setup the right permissions ? I cannot be true, that I need to add full permissions to the "Everyone" user account ...

Am I missing something here ? Please help me ...

Regards,
Tony Fonager, Denmark

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