What type of password I have to give to set the custom account for application pool identity [closed]

Answer 1

I tried the command John suggested to set the password through the command line. Since my application pool has spaces in the name, I got this error message:

Failed to process input: The parameter 'Sites'].processModel.identityType:SpecificUser' must begin with a / or - (HRESULT=80070057).

I was able to set the password with the following command:

%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe set config "/section:applicationPools /[name='APP_POOL_NAME'].processModel.identityType:SpecificUser" "/[name='APP_POOL_NAME'].processModel.userName:DOMAIN\USER_NAME" "/[name='APP_POOL_NAME'].processModel.password:PASSWORD" 

Answer 2

For me it was because I didn't mention the domain name as part of the user name

Answer 3

I faced the same problem. It baffled me as the message says there is something wrong with the password. It turned out that the account I was trying to use did not have logon rights on the IIS Server. I added the account to the local Administrators group to resolve the issue - if that's not an option then we have to somehow give the account logon rights to the computer.

Answer 4

The standard windows password rules in the security manager do apply. I believe you have to use an existing account, and that users assigned password. If the security manager was configured after the user account was setup, and the password does not expire, then they may have weaker password rules than the currently existing ones which could create a conflict.

In server 2008R2 %windir%\system32\secpol.msc /s should bring up the local security policy Not sure if its the same in other OS versions.

Answer 5

I have found that it must be a local account on IIS server, rather than a domain account.

Answer 6

For me, it was that I wasn't adding the domain name to the login (DOMAIN\USER). It was defaulting to a local account