ASPNET account on Win2k3

[Ovidiu Platon]

Hello,

I have the following problem: I installed a web app on IIS 6 in Win2k3 EE. Now, whenever I try to log on to my SQL Service, I get Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE'
I solved the problem easily, by adding NETWORK SERVICE as a login in SQL Server. However, my question is: Is the ASPNET account obsolete? In which security context are we expected to run ASP.NET apps in the future? When writing a deployment app, am I supposed to check at install time in what security context will my app run in?

Thanks,
Ovidiu

[Chris Jackson]

In IIS6, ASP.NET no longer has its own account - it inherits from the IIS
worker process. To guarantee authentication as a particular account, use
identity impersonate=true in your web.config. Details here:
[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconconfiguringaspnetprocessidentity.asp[/url]


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"Ovidiu Platon" <ovidiupl@microsoft-lab.pub.ro.THIS_PART_IS_FAIRLY_INVALID>
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Hello,

I have the following problem: I installed a web app on IIS 6 in Win2k3 EE.
Now, whenever I try to log on to my SQL Service, I get Login failed for user
'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE'
I solved the problem easily, by adding NETWORK SERVICE as a login in SQL
Server. However, my question is: Is the ASPNET account obsolete? In which
security context are we expected to run ASP.NET apps in the future? When
writing a deployment app, am I supposed to check at install time in what
security context will my app run in?

Thanks,
Ovidiu