On 7/20/2010 2:17 PM, Dave Watts wrote: >> As this is a vanilla, out-of-the-box installation, that is the >> LocalSystem account. >> >> A) Is this a normal Win7 thing that I have to set permissions for this >> account to the resources it needs for ColdFusion to do it's job? > Well, LocalSystem (or SYSTEM) has all the file permissions it needs.
I would have thought so to. But apparently it did not, as I had to open these directories to "everyone" to get ColdFusion to work with my website. It it is things like this that lead me to believe that there might be something a bit hinky about how my permissions are working on this machine. But I have not been able to narrow this down. As I have no experience with Win7, I don't know what to expect. So I can't tell what is correct improved security behavior and what may not be. >> B) So I am doing this for the first time ever. Is LocalSystem the >> account I want to set or should I set some group of which it is a member? > If this is your development workstation, this is probably sufficient. > For a production environment, you typically want to use a specific > user account, as SYSTEM has more privileges than you want CF to have, > generally. Which is what we do on our production servers. But I seldom bother until I need to run something on my workstation that access network resources. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:335581 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
