Security roles for Developers

[David Bailie]

Hi all,

I was wondering what local security groups a developer needs to belong
to in order to be able to write, test and debug VB, C# and ASP.net on
Windows XP?

The groups that are in question are Debugger Users and VS Developers. I
wanted to know if a .NET developer has to be in both, or either (not all of
our VS.NET users use the debugging capabilities.

Also, does a VS.NET developer need to be a Local Admin?

Thanks in advance.

David

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP]]

does a VS.NET developer need to be a Local Admin?

Absolutely not. VS.NET developers should not be admins. I switched to non
admin some months ago and you can develop normally. Here you have some
resources:

The Non-Admin blog - running with least privilege on the desktop
http://weblogs.asp.net/aaron_margosis/

Developing Software in Visual Studio .NET with Non-Administrative Privileges
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...StudioNETWithNon-AdministrativePrivileges.asp

Developing as non-Admin with VS.NET 2003
http://cyberforge.com/weblog/aniltj/articles/254.aspx

How To Use the ASP.NET Utility to Encrypt Credentials and Session State
Connection Strings
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329290

Item 9: How to develop code as a non-admin
http://www.informit.com/content/images/0321228359/samplechapter/brown_ch.pdf

The groups that are in question are Debugger Users and VS Developers. I
wanted to know if a .NET developer has to be in both, or either (not all
of our VS.NET users use the debugging capabilities.

I don´t remember about the Debugger Users group (the answer is in the docs
above) but I remember that the VS Developers group makes the ASP.NET wizard
to create ASP.NET solutions much happier. Otherwise you have to create IIS
virtual folders first and I experienced some problems. So, I am in both
groups.

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Carlos J. Quintero

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