When I am trying to set my windows account (not domain) as identity of IIS Server default app pool, I'm receving error
The specified password is invalid. Enter a new password.
The windows account has not password and I don't want to set it. How to enable to specify identity without password? Thanks.
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The site I need to configure on our IIS server (on Win 2019) uses a certificate to communicate with an external service.
The certificate is present in the certificates plugin in category personal and trusted.
It also uses a intermediate certificate.
The correct application pool has full permission on the certificate in /personal. Also the "network service" user.
The private certificate isn't exportable.
The SSL connection works when the application pool is configured with identity "LocalSystem" but it doesn't work with "ApplicationPoolIdentity".
Changing the "Load user profile" of the application pool from false to true doesn't change anything.
The site uses libraries written for it and is only used within the company.
Is using "LocalSystem" the only solution when using libraries?
You can try different user account in Application pool identity.
Built-in user account
Select this option to use one of the predefined security accounts. Then select one of the following accounts:
LocalSystem - The Local System account has all user rights, and it is
part of the Administrators group on the Web server. Whenever
possible, avoid using the Local System account because it presents a
serious security risk for your Web server.
LocalService - The Local Service account is a member of the Users
group and has the same user rights as the Network Service account,
but limited to the local computer. Use this account when the worker
process in your application pool does not require access outside the
Web server on which it runs.
NetworkService - By default, the Network Service account is selected.
It is a member of the Users group and has user rights that are
required to run applications. It can interact throughout an Active
Directory-based network by using the computer account's credentials.
This account provides the most security against an attack that might
try to take over the Web server.
ApplicationPoolIdentity - Starting with IIS 7, application pools can
be ran as the "ApplicationPoolIdentity" account instead of the
"NetworkService" account. This is a dedicated pseudo user account for
the working process of an application pool and is the recommended
pool identity.
Custom user account
Select this option to configure a custom user account for the application pool identity.
Custom user account
Select this option to configure a custom user account for the application pool identity.
Installed user account
You can configure an installed User Account under which you want the worker process to run.
Property-based user
You can dynamically choose a username and a password under which you want the worker process to run, by using references to Windows Installer properties. By using this option you can choose the way the password is selected:
Password property
The password is stored inside a property.
Predefined password
By selecting this option you can define you own password.
Note: If you use a custom identity, make sure that the user account you specify is a member of the IIS_IUSRS group on the Web server so that the account has proper access to resources. Additionally, when you use Windows and Kerberos authentication in your environment, you might need to register a Service Principle Name (SPN) with the domain controller (DC).
I have a web application hosted in IIS and configured with Windows Authentication. It is supposed to be SSO (Single sign-on) and work without prompting users for their credentials. It works in this way if I access it via server name or cname. Example:
https://serverName/applicationName
https://cname/applicationName
However, it asks for user credentials if I access the application via full domain name such as:
https://serverName.domain.com/applicationName
https://cname.domain.com/applicationName
Any ideas what the issue would be?
I am trying to authorize my GET calls in web api, it is working fine( when projects runs on the browser token authenticate properly ) where i published same project in IIS, every time I got a alert box of user name and password. How could i disable this alert box. what credential he is asking for authenticate. I gave all the registered user name and password from my database. I am confused , help me
Check what type of authentication has been enabled for the site in IIS.I believe you are using Basic authentication type.By default, Basic authentication requires the Windows user account to have local logon rights at the Web server. If you want to disable select the particular website and change the authentication type to Anonymous.
I had to change the admin password as it had expired via RDP. The server was working fine after the change.
Later I disconnected the session, and started it again, now we are getting the following error message:
An authentication error has occurred.
The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted
Remote computer: **.cloudapp.net
This same error keeps coming up even after 2 server restarts. The password is defiantly correct as typing a different password gives a "Password Incorrect" error.
There is no other way for us to access this server.
I found the answer here.
Your machine should still have a local administrator account (e.g. MachineName\Administrator), in which case you can login with the administrator account. In the RDP login prompt, you'll need to put the full user account (e.g., "MachineName\Administrator" where MachineName is your computer's name, otherwise it will default to "PreviousDomainUsed\Administrator").
This happened to me with an Azure VM because the domain administrator account I was using had an expired password and the Azure VMs enforce Network Level Authentication, which prevents you from changing the password through RDP. I was able to update the password by logging into the domain controller's VM, but the VM I couldn't log into didn't receive the update because the DNS settings were incorrect. I RDP'd into the faulty VM with the local administrator account, updated the DNS settings and ran "gpupdate" in a Powershell command prompt and everything began working again.
Hope this helps.
I had same issue with local admin account and specifying user account as "machine name\Administrator" still did not work. There was only local admin account in Azure VM so I needed to solve this issue for local admin account.
I could reset password for local admin account by following step then now I can log in to Azure VM by local admin account.
Open Azure Portal web site.
Click "Virtual Machine" then click virtual machine name which issue having in the list.
Dash board for selected virtual machine is shown. Then click "Reset Password".
Following screen is displayed so specify local admin account name nand password, then click Update.
This uses the VMAccess extension to reset the built-in administrator account and reset the Remote Desktop service configuration. Learn more
Mode
You can perform a password reset, which will also reset the Remote Desktop service configuration, or choose to reset the configuration only.
Reset password
User name:
If you provide a different user name, then the built-in administrator account with be renamed. Also, the account will be enabled if it's currently disabled. (The name of local admin account is shown as default)
Password
Confirm password
here is an answer if you need it yet.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/18710.troubleshoot-azure-vm-by-attaching-os-disk-to-another-azure-vm.aspx
We have a service account defined for anonymous access which is used for several web sites hosted on the web server. This account has access to several network resources like report server, file servers and so on.
While deploying a new web site, we used the same service account for anonymous access. IIS takes the username/password for the account and then a dialog opens for confirm password.
Accidently, we gave a wrong password in both the text boxes, the new site with wrong password is working fine but all other previously hosted sites which were using the service account, started giving the unautorized access error.
Is it possible that when we entered wrong password for the new web site, the password of the account got reset and all sites stopped functioning?
If this was IIS5.x then yes it's possible that the password update you performed did indeed change the anonymous account password.
If this was IIS6 then there are a number of pre-conditions that must be met before changing the password in IIS manager changes the password for the anonymous account. This MS knowledgebase article covers this is detail:
IIS 6.0: HOW TO: Configure IIS to Control the Anonymous Password (MS KB:332167)
In IIS7 this capability was retired.