Microsoft KB Archive/188090

= Access Denied to Search Results for Non-Administrators =

Article ID: 188090

Article Last Modified on 7/16/1999

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Search, when used with:
 * Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q188090



SYMPTOMS
Protected documents (documents with access control lists [ACLs] applied) are not returned by Search when used in the "high performance" query path. Users without administrative privileges cannot see secure content, even though they have read permission on the file.

System administrators are able to perform a query and have the secure content returned.

The high performance query path has no sort clauses, and no hit count is retrieved. Sometimes having the rank clause can also lead to this behavior.



CAUSE
The high performance queries are run in the context of the user's security, which does not have permission to open the security table unless the user is an administrator.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, apply the latest Site Server 3.0 service pack.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Site Server version 3.0. This problem has been corrected in the latest U.S. service pack for Microsoft Site Server version 3.0. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: sp

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbsiteserv300sp1fix KB188090

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