Application Pool - Service Account Permissions

[Dan Daloia <daloia_d () subway com>]

Hi Folks,

Just wants to see what your thoughts were on an 2008R2 IIS7.5 application
pool identity user having local administrative privileges for a complex
internet facing .net web application? I was always taught that this is
high risk, but maybe things have changed. The basic setup is supposed to
be this. A front end (dmz zone) web farm, back end (trust zone) web farm ,
all connected to the same domain, using the same domain service account
that will need to be in the local administrators group on all the servers.
I have a feeling the application can be coded differently and I don't have
a real answer yet to why it needs to be this way.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks in advance!!



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