Reporting Services - needed security permissions

When you install Reporting Services the installation will grant aspnet account several security permissions.
There are time when you want to run under different account say for security reasons, you will have to add the following permissions to the new account in order for Reporting Services to function.

Folder Permissions:

Folder

Permissions

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting Services\LogFiles

Read, Write and Delete

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting Services\ReportManager

Read and Execute, List Folder Contents,Read

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting Services\ReportServer

Read and Execute, List Folder Contents, Read

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting Services RSTempFiles

Read, Write Modify

C:\Windows\Temp

Full

File Permissions

File

Permissions

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting Services\ReportManager\global.asax

Full

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting Services\ReportServer\global.asax

Full

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting Services\ReportServer\ReportService.asmx

Full

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting Services\ReportServer\RSReportServer.config

Read and Write

1 Comment

  • Many thanks, Ohad!



    Useful info to have -- KB840713 sets up the NTFS permissions for secure access by LocalSystem; but there doesn't seem to be a KB article to document this info for (default or custom) ASPNET accounts.



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