I don't think it's a good idea to give any sort of access to the root. Your website shouldn't be on the system volume anyway. If you need to test some sort of program/code that requires access to all of C:....then that's just bad programming. Why can't he test with access to a folder that's specially created for testing? ...or test on a development box that's not open to the public. In reality, if you're not a huge company, don't have many enemies, have a low traffic site and take other precautions to secure the network, you're fairly safe....still not a good idea though. I would also recommend downloading and running The IIS Lockdown Tool and the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer....both available for free from Microsoft.
------------------------- Stand Up For Free Speech http://www.eff.org -----Original Message----- From: Kenzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: permission OK, I need some input from you guys on this. Our webmaster seems to think that giving the guest internet user read access to the C drive is OK as long as you don't set IIS to list content and other stuff that I don't understand, since I don't know anything about running a website. I told him that by doing so, most subfolders will also take that permission, so if someone that knows what they're doing could compromise that account, they would have read access to almost the whole C drive. the box is a win2k server with IIS5. I believe he wants to do this for some error checking for a C or java program. The program suppose to check to make sure that the drive has enought space before it starts writing or copying things and for that it needs read access to the C drive. To me, even thought I don't know anything about programing and webhosting, it doesn't look right from the security point of view. Please give me some input on this if it's OK or not and why, so that I can tell him yes it's OK or NO it's not OK because of this and that. Thanks.
