Do you know how to track down permission problems?
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Posted at
9/10/2013 2:50 AM by
Tiago Araujo
Rule Intro
You need
process monitor to track down permissions problems.
E.g.
Problem
To hunt down a problem where say the IIS server couldn’t write to a directory, even after you have given permissions to the app pool account.
Solution
- Install and run
process monitor
- Apply filter
- Rejoice
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- Figure: Apply filter to only show "ACCESS DENIED" results
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- Figure: And here we have the offending account
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