On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:08:13AM -0600, Frank Knobbe wrote: > The reason IIS4+ runs as SYSTEM appears to be to gain performance.
Sorry, I do not understand that - why should that improve performance if user SYSTEM is used and not a normal user? > I > guess running IIS as a kernel module and having less context switches > does do well for performance (like an Apache LKM), but unfortunately not > for security. Perhaps one should better have a look at Felix von Leitners work for doing scalable network programming. VB. -- Volker Birk, Postfach 1540, 88334 Bad Waldsee, Germany Phone +49 (7524) 912142, Fax +49 (7524) 996807, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fdik.org, Deutsches IRCNet [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key: http://www.x-pie.de/vb.asc _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
