I am installing Movabletype on a Windows 2003 Server. I am using ActivePearl.

I have everything working, except that the MovableType script needs to
write updated HTML files into the published web directories, but
becuase it runs with the identity of the currently connected web user
(always the anonymous user account) it does not have write access to
these directories.

I can not grant the anonymous user write rights to these directories
because of the security implications, so I need a way to grant the
ActivePearl DLL or EXE file the rights to write to the web
directories, presubably by running it with a different account.

I've tried using RUNAS, but can't get it to work. What I really need
is the equivalent of Unix's SID bit.

Please do not answer unless you've actually gotten this to work. I
have tried lots of reasonable solutions that *should* work, but do
not.

Thanks!

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Request for Question Clarification by webadept-ga on 13 Feb 2004 21:22 PST

What server are you useing Apache or IIS? I can get that to work if
you tell me which server you have and the version number.

webadept-ga

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Clarification of Question by bigjosh-ga on 14 Feb 2004 06:46 PST

Sorry, I should have stated it is IIS6.0.

Thanks.

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Clarification of Question by bigjosh-ga on 02 Mar 2004 21:05 PST

I ended up getting this to work by changing the default internet guest
user on the MovableType virtual directory to be a special user with
rights to write to the MovableType target directories.