Re: IIS Error - 500 when running a CGI/EXE after upgrading XP to

From: ATS (ATS_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 06:21:02 -0800

Thanks for the reply,

SP2 does indeed impact the security. It is either taking away the privelege
for IUSR and IWAM to "Create Token Objects" and/or adding a new privilege
called "Create Token Objects" (which I doubt, and could easily determine, but
don't have the time to), of which it is not adding IUSR and IWAM to. I
confirmed this by simply adding IUSR and IWAM to have that privilege and then
IIS and CGI worked.

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