Re: allow logon locally on IIS 6.0

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From: Paul Lynch (paul.lynch_at_nospam.com)
Date: 07/01/04 

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 12:07:01 +0100

On 1 Jul 2004 03:04:34 -0700, andycheung2000@hotmail.com (Andy Cheung)
wrote:

>is there any reason why I might want to give allow logon locally to
>the network service account? By default, IIS 6.0 doesn't give it but
>I have a book (CYA Securing IIS 6.0) which sugegsts I should give it.
>i don't see an explanation of why. any ideas?

Andy,

I've done some testing of this myself and as far as I can tell Log On
Locally isn't required for IIS6 to function correctly.

Actually, two of the authors of the book frequent this group so they
may have a comment to add.

Regards,

Paul Lynch
MCSE

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