Re: Access issues in the SharePoint portal

In the Manage Users page underneath Users there is a section called
Domain Groups. If this has NT AUTHORITY\authenticated users make sure
the 'Site Groups' is set to Reader. This gives Read access to everyone
on your network unless you have granted them a higher level. It might
look like they have Administrator rights but when they get to the last
step of adding or changing an item it will ask for their logon details.

It would be better if Admin functions were only visible to Users with
Admin/Web Designer/Contributor access etc. but sadly SharePoint does
not do this which misleads people into thinking they can make changes
to the site or content when they only have read access

Hope this helps.


kaushal77@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi,
I have the following problem:
Any local windows user is getting admin access to the SharePoint portal
(is able to see Actions web part(which contains links for Edit Page
etc.)
Suppose i create a user called "Dummy" in my windows server.
When I open my portal and when I put user name as "Dummy" and proper
password, I am automatically logged into the portal as an
administrator.
I haven't given ANY rights to this user on my portal.
When I click on Site Settings- Manage Security and Additional
settings(Under General Settings) -Show User information (under Users
and Permissions), i see this user name. Here I also see a user named NT
AUTHORITY/SYSTEM. But when I click on Manage Users, I don't see these
extra users.
This problem was not happenning earlier and only users having rights on
the portal were able to access it. I am sure some setting has changed
but I am not able to put my hand on it.
My IIS settings are as follows:
The portal uses MSSharePointPortalAppPool as the Application Pool and
"Network Service" as the application pool identity (I have tried
changing it to "Local Service" or "Local System", but it didn't help.

For the portal, anonymous access is disabled and Basic Authentication"
is on.

The server does not use active directory as of now and all the users
are local windows users.
Can Anyone help please.

Regards,
Munish

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