ASP .NET - Re: Event logging permissions

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Re: Event logging permissions

Alex

2004-03-31, 10:43 am

This might be useful for you.

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...Ben-us%3B329291

"Andy Rose" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3C5A648E-D9CC-4FB2-98A0-2CA4DD5EBAFF@microsoft.com...
> I have been looking at tutorials on event logging and utilising the
EventLog class. The code shown in these tutorials will typically be as shown
below:
>
> EventLog ev = new EventLog();
> ev.Log = "Application";
> ev.Source = "Test";
> ev.WriteEntry("test entry");
>
> When I try and run this on my own development environment however I get an
exception thrown stating that "Requested registry access is not allowed.". I
can get round this by making giving the ASPNET user administrator rights. A
similar exception is thrown if I try and use the static methods
'SourceExists' or 'CreateEventSource'.
> Is making ASPNET an administrator required for this to work or is there
another permission setting that I am missing.
>
> Regards, Andy

Andy Rose

2004-03-31, 11:46 am

Thank you Alex, this article has confirmed what I believed what was happening. It's just a little unnerving that books that descibe themselves as teaching 'Professional ASP.NET' and 'MCAD/MSCD' tutorials do not make any reference to this but instead imply
that ASP.NET will happily create new Event log sources without any problems. Anyway rant over and thanks for your help.

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