title: What are the dangers of giving the Network Service account read/write permissions to your ASP.NET Web application?
body: <p>What are the dangers of giving the Network Service account read/write permissions to your ASP.NET Web application?  I have to do this for any directory that my app needs to write to like App_Data for my VistaDb database and some random directories to uplaod images and make changes to text files, etc.  What is the danger in doing this?  And is it acceptable to just grant read/write perms to the entire Web application for Network Service?</p>