How To Give ASPNET Account Permission To Access DB's
Jun 16, 2005
I'm creating one of my first asp.net pages, and it accesses an MS SQL database.It runs fine locally, but if you go to it remotely through a web browser, you get an exception saying that the database login failed for user ASPNET.My brother told me to do the following in SQL Server Managment studio. It seems I don't have that program installed, so I did it from the SQL command prompt.CREATE LOGIN [bigblueASPNET] FROM WINDOWSuse AdventureWorkscreate user [bigblueASPNET](Where "bigblue" is the computer name and "AdventureWorks" is the database my asp.net web page reads from).This only partially fixed the problem - now when you open the page remotely and try to access the DB I get an error message saying that permission to use the SELECT command is denied.I searched on these forums, and found this:http://forums.asp.net/69166/ShowPost.aspxFor future reference, let's call what my brother told me "Method 1" and what the previous poster did as "Method 2."I haven't tried method 2 because I don't know exactly what I am giving ASPNET permission to do. Does method 2 enable ASPNET to do anything to any database? It seems method 1 is more secure, as from the commands I could already tell it only has permission to access AdventureWorks.So, I'd prefer to use method 1. Can anyone tell me what further commands I can use to give ASPNET permission to do specific actions?If I can't figure out method 1 and have to do method 2, how can I undo what I did in method 1?Thanks!
I installed SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 and have discovered that the ASPNET machine account was not added as a user when going into "Computer Management". I obviously need this to run ASP.net apps. I tried going to the Administrators group to add user ASPNET, but the system can't find this user. How can I install the ASPNET account?
I seem to remember that when using VS2003 to create a website which connected to a MSDE database, I needed to explicitly grant access to the database for ASPNET machine account using the following SQL commands from within a .sql script: EXEC sp_grantlogin '<machine>ASPNET'EXEC sp_grantdbaccess '<machine>ASPNET' With VS2005, it sppears that upon creating an .MDF database in the App_Data folder this is no longer necessary. I'd be interested to know why this is so. Does VS2005 automatically do this when the database is created? If anybody could shed some light on this I'd be interested. Thanks,Wayne.
This is the error message "Login failed for user 'SUSHMAASPNET'. " I am Building a Data Form that displays data from a single table- the Customers table in the Northwind sample Database. I have Visual Studio.Net 1.0 and SQL Server 2000. So I feel that I need to add an ASPNET account to my database. Please could someone tell me if this could solve the problem, if so please could you tell me how to Add an ASPNET account to my database? Thank you
VS2005Hi If I run the below code (this simply connects to SQL Server and returns the user name the connection is made under): Dim Connection As New SqlConnection(System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("LocalSqlServer").ToString)
Dim AttCommand As New SqlCommand("SELECT System_USER", Connection)
Connection.Open() Dim AttendanceReader As SqlDataReader = AttCommand.ExecuteReader
AttendanceReader.Read()
Debug.Print(AttendanceReader.Item(0).ToString)I get: MyDomainpootle.flump Which is the account I am running on the dev machine. I expected ASP.Net to run as ASPNET irrespective of the currently logged in account. Am I plain wrong? Do I need to change something in IIS? Do I need to change something in ASP.Net? Any help greatly appreciated Thanks
can anyone give me step by step instructions as to how I would go about correctly granting the aspnet account access to my sql server 2005 database ?? As far as I can see Ive set it up, but im getting execute permissions errors on stored procedures even though Ive gone into properties and permissions and added the aspnet account with execute permissions.
When I try to access my PasswordRecovery.aspx page I get an error. I've also added the Event Warning and the Failure Audit. I've tried deleting the ASPNET user account and recreating it using aspnet_regiis.exe. I still get the same error message. Should I add the ASPNET account to the Administrators group? Currently it is with the Users group. Login failed for user 'PC325862970629ASPNET'.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Login failed for user 'PC325862970629ASPNET'.
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below. Stack Trace:
I'm trying to get a stored procedure working for a website on my local machine that uses ASP.NET 1.1 and MSDE. (I have a single instance of the latter installed, using Windows Authentication mode.)
I've been able to run SQL queries and such directly (using SqlCommand and so forth) by adding the proper reader role to the account MACHINENAMEASPNET. (Substituting my actual machine name for MACHINENAME, of course.) However, when I try to run a stored procedure from an .aspx page, I get the following error:
I've researched this problem here and other places, and every time I get to a response that says to grant execute permission (via OSQL -E) with the following statements:
use mydbasename go grant execute on MySPName to MACHINENAMEASPNET go
(There are sometimes some other intervening statements to add ASPNET as a user account, but when I use those I'm told that the account already exists ... I had added it previously via the Web Data Administrator in order to get reader permissions for SELECT statements and so forth.)
My problem is that the GRANT EXECUTE statement always fails with the following error:
Line 1: Incorrect syntax near ''
Using a forward slash instead doesn't make any difference. If I put single quotes around 'MACHINENAMEASPNET', then the error changes to:
Line 1: Incorrect syntax near 'MACHINENAMEASPNET'
And if I eliminate the machine name, then the error is:
Msg 4604, Level 16, State 1, Server MACHINENAME, Line 1 There is no such user or group 'ASPNET'
So can someone please let me know what I am missing that doesn't allow the GRANT EXECUTE to work?
Here is the stack trace (note that I have altered some names and paths for purposes of security):
Hey guys. I'll have an active/active cluster and seperate accounts for SQL Services and Cluster service. The question is what rights should the cluster account have in SQL if I've removed the 'builtin admins' from SQL? Thank you
Hey guys. I've an application which uses an account named Uaccount1. I've given it db_datareader and db_datawriter permissions to the tables. I've given it execute permissions to all sp's I've given it reference permissions to the symmetric key. And I gave it reference permissions on the certificate. At this point, it can't see the certificate. If I give control permission to the account for the certificate, it works perfect. Is it necessary to do that or am I missing something. Our security is based on symmetric key and certificates...
Tools -> connect to database -> Select datasourse - Microsoft SQL Server (SqlClient) -> Server name - comp4_8SQLExpress -> Log on to the server �� Use Windows Authentication -> Connect to a database -> Select or enter a database name �� MyDataBase
comp4_8 - is the name of my computer. I am using Windows XP Professional SP2. Login as administrator without password.
Now about the problem I have. On local machine everything is great! But I hosted my website and got this error. The question is how to give permission to this user to connect to my database. Cannot open database "MyDataBase" requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user 'ANGELINAASPNET'.
I have an application which is using SQL Reporting Services 2005. I have all my RDL files under a root folder named "X". Now I need to give users/groups permission to browse the reports under this folder. I need to do it programatically using the web services class ReportService2005 (I thought this would be the right class to do this task). Can anyone please throw some light on this.
I am using a "Client" dimension that includes a "Holding - Client" hierarchy. I have to make sure, that only the appropriate roles may access appropriate members from this dimension, but I only have the information which role may access which ClientID - I do not have the information which HoldingID should be accessible. Also, "Client" is used as the key column of the dimension with "ClientID" and "HoldingID" as key columns. The hierarchy is strict, no client may belong to multiple holdings.
I cannot seem to find the right MDX for the allowed member set. My MDX expression would need to look like this:
[Client].[Holding - Client].[Client].&[*]&[123]
In this example I want to give access for client &123, no matter the holding, so &1&123 and &2&123 would be allowed.
I would like to grant the MACHINENAMEASPNET user all acccess to my MSSQL database (i.e tables and stored procedures. I can do this through enterprise manager but id rather do it programatically so i can add it to my database creation script. What is the syntax for this?
Ran a trace using profiler and found that the CLR is not using the ASPNET windows account to log into SQL 2005, instead using the admin. Some ado.net code does not work properly as a result. Have had to change the connection string to use SQL logins.Spec: Win XP Pro; IIS 5; 2.0.Is this normal? Where security and permissions are concerned, what changes, if any, are there from SQL 2000?
I have my normal SQL 2005 database....and another database (on the same machine) that is the default aspnet database. I use that for authentication of course. Everything is working well except now I need to (for a SP I'm creating) access the UserID field in the Users table (without the customer logged in). I know this isn't the best way to do it but....Can someone tell me how to programatically (from an existing SP) access the aspnet database? So I can just check something against the UserID (providerkey) I already have? The customer isn't logged in at this point. I have their UserID from somewhere else. Here is what I am trying to use now. IT Works in Query Manager but throws an error (...in this security context) when I run it in ASP.NET...SELECT @UserName=(select UserName from [aspnetdb].dbo.aspnet_Users where UserID=@UserID) Thanks.
We have an ASP.net application that currently sits on a server that runs IIS and sql server. We are spliting IIS and SQL server into 2 seperate machines. I believe I have the connection string okay as I can see the entries in the security log on the sql server machine however it keeps saying aspnet user invalid user or invalid password. What gives with this. We put .net on the sql server however this just added the aspnet user to the machine. Do I need to create an aspnet user inside the sql server and give it control of the dbases as well? I am running this using the personal web server not IIS on a server. I have a project on my desktop and am using the "local" IIS or personal web server that comes with visual studio out of the box. What kills me is that when I put the project on a real IIS server that has sql server on the same machine I have no issues. However when I split the dbase and the IIS apart onto 2 servers I get this aspnet invalid user or invalid password. HELP
I've just started to learn to use Visual Studio, and has come to database access. I ran into this errormessage:
access denied for user <machine name>ASPNET
The book I'm using just only say that I have to grant the ASPNET user account permissions before the Web application will have access to a SQL database. ... Seems clear at first glance ... but I lack a "how to" ...!
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I've tried to search the net for solutions ... several thousands of pages came up ... indicating that I'm far from the first who have this problem. ... So after I now have spend hours reading, without finding any useful ansver to the question. ...
So let me just tell the most popular answers. (So You don't repeat something I allready have read hundreds of times.): This question has been asked before Yes, true answer, but it doesn't help.
See the FAQ If it was stated were in the FAQ to look it could have been useful.
Use something called "enterprise manager" (WIN XP pro, don't have this, though.) I use WIN XP pro, so that answer dosn't help me either.
Im getting ASP.Net 2.0 Beta 2 setup on my home machine to kick around with. Im assuming this error means i have SqlServer Express mis-configured for integrated security. if so, how do i go about making sure that the ASPNET user has at least read access to the Database? Error Message wrote: Server Error in '/Kinetic' Application.
Cannot open database "aspnetdb" requested by the login. The login failed.Login failed for user 'GAMESASPNET'.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot open database "aspnetdb" requested by the login. The login failed.Login failed for user 'GAMESASPNET'.
I tried using my administrator account to add SQLServer as an ODBC Connection, but for some reason when it tries authenticating it fails and the reason is that the user is not trusted to use that connection. Yet on my account i've created on my domain works perfectly.
I've added a new user in SQL Enterprise manager, but i still get that error.
How do I set the user to be trusted to use the connection?
I've created a local server from Sql Express, and report server from Reporting service configuration manager, and than publish a report on the local report server. I want to give access to the other computer user to the sql reports, database and report server.
My application is currently integration with reporting services using custom security extension. I have my own USER and ROLE database to determine who/which role can access certain reports.
My question is how to give access a report to be viewable by everyone? I dont want to assign all users or all roles to achieve this.
The other thing that I found out is, let say I change the name one of the user/role. Because of this, the authorization will fail because the old name/role is not in the DB anymore. Is this expected? or is there a workaround it?
I am getting the error: Cannot open database "aspnetdb" requested by the login. The login failed. When I browse to my ASP.NET 3.5 LINQ web application on the IIS 6.0 server on Server 2003. I imagine this is because while I granted SQL Server 2005 login and permissions to my database that the application stores its data in, I did NOT grant any rights to the service account the IIS Application Pool uses for its identity to the aspnetdb database on SQL Server which is where all my roles information is stored at. My question is what are the MINIMUM permissions needed for this database so it can perform its roles related functions? I'm using Windows Authentications with the SQL Role provider for authorization.
Thank you.
EDIT: I think I only need to open the aspnetdb database and add my login to the aspnet_Roles_FullAccess role. Is that correct?
I have a user who has created several SQL7 databases and uses a VB app which schedules jobs (under the sa account) on the SQL server. How can I allow this user to view scheduled jobs on the server ? I don't want to give him too many priviledges.
I am designing an application where multiple users can be assign to a product for review. If a user doesn't have access to the product, they are not allowed to see it. I have attached my table design. All users are assign to a role. See attached screen
I'm using SQL Server Management Studio eExpress and I'm tryng to link to a database created in Visual Web Developer Express. My problem is that I can't see large parts of my file system when I try to attach a database in SQL Server Express. Web Developer Express likes to put its databases in C:Documents and Settings<User Name>My DocumentsVisual Studio 2005WebSites<Site Name>App_Data. However, when I try to attach a database in that location to SQL Server Express (Right Click Databases node, select Attach from the shortcut menu then Add from the Attach Databases dialog) I get a folder tree that won’t let me go any further than C:Documents and Settings<User Name>. There seem to be large parts of my folder structure that I cannot access with this dialog.
Just in case this is a permissions issue, I am using Windows XP Pro on a stand alone machine. I log on as Administrator, and the <User Name> in the above paths is Administrator. The Administrator is a member of the Administrators group. I have never logged on as anything else and never made any changes to the way permissions are set. When I start SQL Server express I select Windows Authentication.
what is MS's strategy for having two off the shelf ways of getting at reports? In a typical company, is the average non administrator type user getting at his reports via one, the other, both?
I have been struggling with this one for awhile now.I have a domain group which only must view the steps and history of all agent jobs.I have added the group to the sqlagentreadergroup.I have created a new role and denied this role,add job,update job,delete job etc execute permissions.But the user still can change ,delete or create a new job.
All the groups and users in th new role,does not have sysadmin rights.
we have sql 2012 enterprise version
What else can i try.I need this for audit purposes.
I want to make the ReportServer and Reports pages secured i.e not allow anyone to access these pages via browser.
I login to a machine as user ABC. This user does not have permission on reports. if this user accesses ReportServer or Reports, expected is that access should be denied unless I enter an account that has been given permissions. for e.x. following pages should be secured. http://<reportserver>/Reports http://<reportserver>/Reports/Pages/Report.aspx?ItemPath=%2f<Report_Project>%2f<Report_Name> http://<reportserver>/ReportServer http://<reportserver>/ReportServer?%2f<Report_Project>&rs:Command=ListChildren
Actual result is that I am able to access these pages. When I click on the report I get the error (this is expected) but then user ABC should be shown error on first page itself.
In short, for all the accounts that do not already have permissions on reports, the server should challenge me to enter an account and password. Is there some setting in the configuration file? Any help would be appreciated Thanks in advance!
During install of SQL Server 2005, we can of course use a domain account or the built-in system account for running the services. I lean toward domain for obvious reaons but would like to know a +/- to each option and why I'd choose one over the other and what consequences or limitations one may encounter if I choose one over the other.
