Attach debugger to local IIS without administrator permission

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To be able to attach to w3wp.exe Visual Studio wants to have elevated permissions so I either have to start VS as admin or add my local user to the Administrators group. Is there any other way, another group etc, to be able to attach to w3wp.exe without having elevated permissions?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 20 '18 at 02:19

Attach debugger to local IIS without administrator permission

I am afraid you can NOT do that without administrator permission.

According to the ASP.NET Debugging: System Requirements:

If you change the ASP.NET worker process to run under your own user account, you do not have to be an Administrator on the server that is running IIS

And Using IIS with Visual Studio:

Disadvantages of Using IIS as a Development Web Server Using IIS as a development server can require more setup and configuration tasks in order to work with Visual Studio than using IIS Express, including the following:

You must run Visual Studio as an administrator in order to work with IIS.

Hope this helps.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 08 '18 at 12:28

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You can run the process under your own user account.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/how-to-run-the-worker-process-under-a-user-account

edited Nov 08 '18 at 12:28

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answered Nov 07 '18 at 18:09

Luke

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Have you got it working with IIS 10 and VS2017? I tried to follow the instructions but IIS couldn't start after I added username and password. – Oskar Nov 08 '18 at 09:54
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This will still run process in session 0, making debugging without admin impossible. – DirectionUnkown Apr 16 '20 at 13:39

Attach debugger to local IIS without administrator permission

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