Where’s the “Any” key?

After upgrading to Fast-CGI, my WordPress 2.1 image upload tool started asking for a password every time a image was uploaded. Turned out to be a permissions issue with WP/Fast-CGI-IIS that was solved by following the steps below from Joseph Scott’s Blog.

1. Edit upload_tmp_dir option in php.ini. In my case I created an uploads folder in the wwwroot: upload_tmp_dir = “c:\inetpub\wwwroot\uploads”
2. Create the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\uploads folder and grant the IUSR full control of it
3. Create the uploads folder in your wp-content folder, for me this was in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress-trunk\wp-contents\uploads, then grant the IUSR full control of it
4. Restart the IIS service (to pick up the php.ini change)