I'm using VSTS to deploy a azure cloud service package and getting a file access issue for web.config not able to be written to after a successful deployment.
At the moment I manually set the file permission via RDP to correct it for eg. on e:\siteroot\1\Web.config (Everyone FC)
To avoid this manual step - how can I set a folder/file permission for a file under cloud service deployment.
You can create a .bat file where you call the icacls command with the parameters you prefer:
How to grant permission to users for a directory using command line in Windows?
and then you can configure a startup task for your cloud service to run this file:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-services/cloud-services-startup-tasks
The issue seems not related to azure projects directly. It's not suggest to give a permission with Everyone FC, this may cause security risk.
For Azure Cloud Services Web Roles, the default Application Pool Identity account is “Network Service”.
In a normal basis the Application Pool account needs read permission over the web.config file so it can read all the application configuration.
For this kind of issue, you could creating a Startup Task to give write permission to Network Service in the application Web.config file.
Please go through the detail steps in this similar issue: Error “Access to the path ‘E:sitesrootWeb.config’ is denied” when storing Azure AD’s public key in Web.config of an Azure Cloud Services application.
Also take a look at this related question: Web.config Access denied when Package Azure cloud services projects in Visual Studio 2013 for Web
