Hi there
I have a question about Connection Strings that I'm sure has been asked before but I cannot find the correct answer after hours of searching the forums and Google.
I want to encrypt a ConnectionString on a server but I don't own the server. Therefore, I cannot run the command line tool.
Also, since I don't own the server, I cannot create mini web applications just for encryption. I'm not worried about someone else internally seeing the web.config configurations since our organisation owns the server, but I have to put in a request for everything that I want to update on it.
So, my question is - can I modify the web.config file to encrypt on the machine without needing write access to the folder? I know the answer is probably no - but I just want to be sure. Recalling that if I upload the web.config and modify the file remotely, I would need (or the ASP worker process would need) write access to the physical folder (again wh ...
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