The password for the ASPNET account

[bruce barker]

this set the account aspnet_wp.exe will run under, and thus the default
account for all asp.net pages. you have three options

1) use the local system account "userName=system"
2) use the default local account generated by asp.net filter
"userName=machine". you supply a password, or have one that will be
generated. the password is only generated once and is stored.
3) use a user supplied account and password.



"Abhishek Srivastava" <abhishek@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> I want to understand what does the following line mean in the
> machine.config file
>
> <processModel enable="true" userName="machine" password="AutoGenerate"
> />
>
> What does the AutoGenerate mean in the password attribute? Is the
> password generated everytime ?
>
> Otherwise how does IIS know which password is to be supplied when
> running an aspx page?
>
> thanks for your help.
>
> regards,
> Abhishek.
>

[Scott Allen]

Hi Abhishek:

>
>What does the AutoGenerate mean in the password attribute? Is the
>password generated everytime ?
>

The password is not generated everytime. This attribute is just a
signal to get the password from the local system authority (lsa).

More detail here:
[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/using/building/web/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnnetsec/html/SecNetHT01.asp[/url]

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Scott