Remote Setting Permissions on IIS

Without a CHMOD command...

[txbakers]

Here's another W2000 Web Question. Without the benefit of a CHMOD command, how do you remotely set permissions for CGI scripts, etc. on a W2000/IIS server?

Ya know, if it wasn't for the ASP, I'm beginning to think that IIS is worthless as a real industrial webserver.

Thanks.

[DaveAtIFG]

I don't think you can set them remotely. I'm running W2K Pro so I fired up an antique copy of the Serv-U FTP server, then logged onto it using CuteFTP. Permissions displayed are inconsistent with *nix type permissions in that "owner permissions" seem to be all that's displayed, no group or public permissions. An attempt to use the chmod command produces a 501 error, "Site option not supported."

I suspect the IIS system admin will need to set permissions for the cgi-bin and the user will have to live with them.

[txbakers]

Thanks Gave, that's what I was afraid of.....

[Xoc]

You can have installed a set of web pages that allows remote administration of an IIS server. From those web pages, you have virtually all the same commands as the Internet Service Manager dialogs. For anything that isn't supported, you can always create your own ASP page and have it do Microsoft Scripting Runtime commands to manage permissions on files. Just make sure you add appropriate security to those pages.