Administering an ISP Installation

Turning Users into Web Site Operators

Delegating administrative rights to your customers can present a security challenge. To meet this challenge, you have to make sure that each customer can administer only his or her own site. For ISPs who are hosting multiple sites on a single server, the Web site Operators feature of IIS 5.0 is the ideal tool for this. Web site Operators are Windows user accounts that have limited administration privileges on a Web site.

With this feature, you can give individual site administrators complete control over the properties, applications, and security of their site—without jeopardizing the security or configuration of other sites running on the same server. A Web site Operator cannot change bindings or port numbers, configure the anonymous user name and passwords, change the identification of the Web site, throttle bandwidth, change accounts on the server, add virtual directories, configure process isolation or ISAPI filters, or stop, pause, or restart a site.

For more information see “Assigning Web Site Operators” in the IIS 5.0 online product documentation.