What account does IIS Express run under?

iis permissions x509certificate privileges iis-express
ChrisCa picture ChrisCa · Dec 9, 2011 · Viewed 18.9k times · Source

I need to get my dev machine to read a certificate from the local machine store

to do this I need to run winhttpcertcfg.exe and specify the account I want to elevate

What would this account be for IIS express?

(For IIS it would be the IWAM_MachineName)

thanks a lot

Answer

danludwig picture danludwig · Dec 9, 2011

IIS Express runs as your user account. When installed, you should find an IISExpress folder in your My Documents folder.

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