--- title: "Issues and solutions with Process and Request Identity in ASP.NET" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/8/issues-and-solutions-with-process-and-request-identity-in-as.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/8/issues-and-solutions-with-process-and-request-identity-in-as.html" published: "2003-09-08T13:58:00" updated: "2003-09-08T13:58:00" tags: [".Net Original", "Cool Articles"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Just found a great KB article that explains how deal with all kinds of permission and identity issues when doing stuff from ASP.NET. I've highlighted the sections so you can see all the tasks that could use…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Issues and solutions with Process and Request Identity in ASP.NET By Roy Osherove September 8, 2003 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original), [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles) **Historical article** · Originally published September 8, 2003; technical details may be outdated. Just found a great KB article that explains how deal with all kinds of permission and identity issues when doing stuff from ASP.NET. I've highlighted the sections so you can see all the tasks that could use configurations: [**INFO: Process and Request Identity in ASP.NET**](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1) - [SUMMARY](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#1) - [MORE INFORMATION](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#2) - [Configure the Process Identity](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#3) - [Default Permissions for the ASPNET Account](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#4) - [Accessing Resources](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#5) - [Using File Resources](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#5a) - [Enabling Impersonation](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#5b) - [Using Databases](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#5c) - [Using the Event Log](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#5d) - [Using System.DirectoryServices and Active Directory](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#5e) - [Using Performance Counters](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#5f) - [Starting Out-of-Process COM Servers](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#5g) - [Debugging Issues](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#5h) - [Running Code with a Fixed Identity](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#5i) - [Compiling Code-Behind Files on UNC Shares](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#5j) - [Using ASP.NET on a Primary or Backup Domain Controller](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#5k) - [Reading the IIS Metabase](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#5l) - [Using System.Management and WMI](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#5m) - [Interacting with the Desktop](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#5n) - [Removing ASP.NET](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#5o) - [REFERENCES](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q317/0/12.asp&NoWebContent=1#6) ## More in .Net Original [All posts in .Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original) - Sep 10, 2003 ### [Issue and solution: Web custom control not showing in designer with "Security Error" tooltip](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/10/issue-and-solution-web-custom-control-not-showing-in-designe.html) - Sep 10, 2003 ### [So, you have to live with 1.0?](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/10/so-you-have-to-live-with-10.html) - Sep 4, 2003 ### [Automatic Data-Relations](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/4/automatic-data-relations.html) - Sep 4, 2003 ### [Debugging shortcuts - Run to cursor, Find next statement](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/4/debugging-shortcuts-run-to-cursor-find-next-statement.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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