January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
620 pages
14h 58m
English
This How To describes how to create a least privileged local account to run the ASP.NET worker process (aspnet_wp.exe) or for impersonated identities in virtual directories. Although the procedures in this How To create a local account, the same concepts apply to a domain account.
The default account for running ASP.NET, created at installation time, is a least privileged local account and is specified in machine.config as follows:
<processModel enable="true" userName="machine" password="AutoGenerate" />
This account is identified as ASPNET under Local Users and Groups, and has a strong password secured in the Local System Authority (LSA).
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