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IWAM account and Act as part of the operating system right

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Frank1213 - 22 Nov 2006 18:10 GMT
I have used the code sample from the KB article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/248187
to impersonate a user from an ASP page and change the security context. The
impersonation works fine on Windows 2003 and XP but fails on Windows 2000.
The only way I can get impersonation to work is by enabling "Act as part of
the operating system" privileges for the IWAM_<computername> account as
mentioned in the KB article.
My question,
1. How big of a security risk is this when I deploy my application?
2. Is this an accepted security workaround?

Thanks in advance.
Frank1213 - 28 Nov 2006 19:24 GMT
I would appreciate if anyone has any thoughts on this one. Basically, what is
the security risk if I grant the IWAM_<computername> user account the Act as
part of the operating system right?
Thanks.

> I have used the code sample from the KB article
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/248187
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> Thanks in advance.

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