Permissions/security issue

[mark...]

I am not the designer of the web page but this has landed
in my lap...We have a web page that we are putting a
customer satisfaction survey on. To connect through the
link we give our clients you must enter a
username/password which is fine. However, after
completing the survey, you click the submit button and a
second authentication box comes up to post the results of
the survey. Why does the second auth come up? I have
checked and the username has permissions on the dir the
survey is written to. Any clues?

 

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

If you mean a Windows style login box, it is likely because NTFS permissions
are set at the file level in Windows Explorer rather than the directory
level. This will cause the user to be authed for each file requested via a
website. Since the dir has perms, it is probably from a file that was copied
from another location on the same box (as copying from box to box would make
the current version of the file inherit from the directory).

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
Author: ADO.NET and XML: ASP.NET on the Edge

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