Re: Accidently deleted IUSR account on 2003 server.

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From: David Wang [Msft] (someone_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/19/04 

Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 21:41:38 -0700

Just creating an account with the same name is insufficient for your
situation. It will not have the same exact SID of the previous user.

You will either need to locate and modify IUSR ACLs everywhere on the system
to match the SID of your new IUSR account, or you can backup the metabase
(make sure to use a password when doing this so that you can later restore
it to the same system) and re-install IIS to have it re-ACL the IUSR
everywhere. 

-- 
//David
IIS
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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<nullbox@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:d27ccbb.0405181259.4660be22@posting.google.com...
Our service manager accidently deleted the active IUSR account on our
2003 server machine (which is our webserver.) Is there any way to
regenerate this account automatically? Or should I just go ahead and
create an account called IUSR_MACHINENAME?

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