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Blegger
Asked: 2009-05-01 06:31:23 +0800 CST

How do I restore the IUSR account used by IIS 6

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We mirrored one of our webservers and thus got an IUSR account that was named after the wrong server IUSR-SERVER1 when this server's name is SERVER2.

So I went and renamed the user to IUSR_SERVER2, but after resetting IIS it kept creating the old IUSR-SERVER1 account. Turns out this is a feature, so I went through the websites in IIS and changed the IUSR that they use to IUSR-SERVER2 then deleted IUSR-SERVER1, and this time it stayed deleted.

Then I accidentally deleted IUSR-SERVER2 so I tried to reset IIS hoping it would be automatically created. Unfortunately this did not occur. Thus I was forced to create a new user and give it a password.

This made the website work but now there is a password associated with the IUSR, is there any other way to create an IUSR so everything is the same as before?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can set the IUSR Password using the following command:

    C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts>cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/anonymoususerpass “P@ssword”

    You then need to sync it with this command:

    C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts>cscript.exe synciwam.vbs -v
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