PRB: Anonymous User in NT Admin Group Breaks Source Control (165831)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Visual InterDev 1.0
- Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0
This article was previously published under Q165831 SYMPTOMS
Files will appear to be checked out or modified by the system's anonymous
user when they are actually checked out to valid SourceSafe accounts.
CAUSE
The machine's Anonymous User account is a member of the Admin user group.
Visual SourceSafe will always attempt to perform actions as the anonymous
user before trying to use the actual logged-in user's name. Only when an
action exceeds the user rights allowed to the system's anonymous user will
it attempt to authenticate as the actual user. Because the anonymous user
is a member of the Admin group, it will always have the rights that are
required to succeed in checking out files.
Another possible cause is that the anonymous user has either Author and
Browse, or Author, Browse, and Administer web permissions.
This can also be caused by using a Windows NT Server that has been
formatted with FAT partitions as the Web server because, unlike drives
formatted with NTFS, FAT drives have no direct way of securing files based
on user id.
RESOLUTION
Remove the anonymous user from the system's Admin group, and make sure that
the anonymous account does not have permissions to author or administer the
Web.
You may need to reboot the server at this point.
STATUS
This behavior is by design.
Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 10/20/2003 |
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Keywords: | kbprb KB165831 |
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