trying to do the right thing...

[Guest]

hey all,
i often here it's better to develop under User profile instead of
Administrator. But, I hit road blocks right off the bat. I
1. 'm trying to open a project in source safe which is trying to create the
virtual directory in iis and it doesn't have enough rights.
2. And i've tried developing as a User in the past and I remember I couldn't
Debug.

Should I set all this up First and then switch to User Profile or does
anyone have someone guidelines for doing this?

thanks,
rodchar

 

[DeveloperX]

hey all,
i often here it's better to develop under User profile instead of
Administrator. But, I hit road blocks right off the bat. I
1. 'm trying to open a project in source safe which is trying to create the
virtual directory in iis and it doesn't have enough rights.
2. And i've tried developing as a User in the past and I remember I couldn't
Debug.

Should I set all this up First and then switch to User Profile or does
anyone have someone guidelines for doing this?

thanks,
rodchar

Hi, I'd develop with full rights but test against the minimum rights
required. Further, as you're developing a project to run under IIS,
that testing is two pronged, first testing IIS is securely configured
with the right level of access to required resources, and second that
the client runs correctly in the browser. See what happens if
Javascript is disabled, older browser versions and alternative
browsers are the common ones. Of course if you're in a corporate
environment you just need to test against the standard.

Again if this was a winforms application I'd still develop with full
rights and test against our corporate standard locked down
environment. If you think about it, imagine a simple winform app that
talks directly to a database. Chances are you'll have rights on the
server to create tables, etc, but a user wouldn't. It wouldn't be
feasable to develop with user level rights.

Hope that helps.