Ron, You're right, I narrowed it down to a definate permissions issue. I enabled user/pass authentication on that directory in IIS, authenticated on the web with an account with administrator privledges, and it works fine for the most part. The only thing that still doesn't work is modifying a user account with the -mod flag. adding and deleting users works fine. So that is still a problem... Furthermore, I can't password protect the exectution of this script because it is part of a user administration. When a user requests any email changes, they submit a form to this server (from the main webserver) and it executes the imail command line utilities. I don't want it to ask for password everytime they try to do that, they already authenticate to get into the online administration. I accomplished this by making anonymous users authenticate with an account that has administrative privledges (by editing the account used for anonymous access). This still does not work for modifying a user. Also, is that a really bad security risk? Is there something else I should try? I enabled that access on a website that only has 3 scripts on it with no other information that is vunerable. Also, the website has script and executables access. Thanks. -- Dan Richfield --------------------------------- - Easy CGI, System Administrator - http://www.easy-cgi.com - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 866-EASY-CGI (toll free) --------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] problem with command line utilities > Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 10:49:28 -0600 > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_00AD_01C0AECF.F08F4B80 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="Windows-1252" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Dan, > > It's most likely a permissions issue. If you're triggering this Perl app > from the web, you'll need to make sure the built-in IUSR_MachineName account > (the anonymous internet user account) has FULL RIGHTS to all the > command-line utilities you're triggering. > > Also, with Win2K, it's important to set the website (or virtual dir) > configuration properties (in IIS-site-properties-Home Directory) to "Script > and Execute" rights, with Low (IIS Process) application priority. (If that > selection is grayed out, create a new Configuration for the website by > clicking the Create button on the Home Directory panel.) > > Hope this helps, > > Ron > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
