IIS: Internet Information Services Default Username and Password
After re-installing Microsoft Visual Studio .NET on my new laptop, I decided to play around with IIS. I am very experienced with Apache but totally new to IIS. After installing IIS for development, I tried to go to http://localhost in Firefox and was prompted for a password. Obviosuly, since I didn't set the password in first place I had no idea what password/user it is talking about. A lit bit of Googling revealed that the default username is IUSER_ComputerName where ComputerName is the name of your computer. So in my case the username was IUSER_Alhumdulillah. Now I know the username but what about the password? So I opened up "Computer Management" screen by going to Start > Run and typing
compmgmt.msc \s
There I navigated to Internet Information Services folder, then right clicked on Default Web Site and selected "Properties". Once another window popped up, I clicked on Directory Security and then modified the passwords using the Edit function.
However my next attempt again failed to login using Firefox, even after a restart.
When I tried using IE, I got through.
References:
Default IIS username
4 Comments:
I just wanted to thank you. After using Microsoft and Google Searches to try to resolve this issue on my own, I came across yourpost and -- WOW. Thank you not just for your knowledge, but your willingness to share it!
Thanks, same problem here and finally resolved w/your help. Thanks Soo Much!
Cheers!
Thanks! Here's a post regarding allowing localhost permissions in Firefox:
http://forums.codecharge.com/posts.php?post_id=81959
I could not change the passwords in the "Authentication Methods" dialog box using the Edit method that you have specified.On the other hand, every time I close that particular dialog box and re-enter it the original password that the IIS had selected appears again.
The link provided by David, for the permissions issue in Firefox was good and I was able to use the IIS through Firefox.
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