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Article ID: 324333 - Last Review: July 7, 2008 - Revision: 7.1

PRB: 401 Error message if user is not included in the Bypass Traversal Checking policy

This article was previously published under Q324333
We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7.0 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008. IIS 7.0 significantly increases Web infrastructure security. For more information about IIS security-related topics, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/IIS.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/IIS.mspx)
For more information about IIS 7.0, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=1 (http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=1)

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SYMPTOMS

When you connect to any page on an Internet Information Services (IIS) Web site, you may receive the following error message:
401.3 Unauthorized due to ACL on resource

CAUSE

This can occur if the account that is trying to access resources on the server does not have enough NTFS file system permissions on the resource.

RESOLUTION

Do not remove the Everyone group from the Bypass Traverse Checking policy. If the Everyone group must be removed from the policy for security reasons, make sure that the IUSR account is listed in the policy.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to reproduce the behavior

  1. Tighten the NTFS permissions on the resource. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
    271071  (http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=271071/ ) Minimum NTFS permissions required for IIS 5.0 to work
  2. Remove Everyone from the local Bypass Traverse Checking security policy.
  3. Try to access a simple HTML page on IIS. You receive the 401.3 error message.

REFERENCES

For more information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
812614  (http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=812614/ ) Default permissions and user rights for IIS 6.0
271071  (http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=271071/ ) How to set required NTFS permissions and user rights for an IIS 5.0 Web server
187506  (http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=187506/ ) Required NTFS permissions and user rights for IIS 4.0

APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0
  • Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0
  • Microsoft Internet Information Services version 5.1
  • Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0
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kbprb KB324333
       

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