Security for ASP.NET Diagnostics page

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Published on 2010-05-06T00:42:02Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 0:48 UTC
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I'm thinking of creating a diagnostics page for an ASP.NET app, which would be mostly intended for admin use to get more information about the application for diagnosing problems.

Examples of the info the page might have :

System.Environment.MachineName (might be useful in web farm scenarios)
System.Environment.Version
Environment.UserName
database name
current user's session ID

Some of the info on this page might be sensitive from a security perspective. If you've done this sort of page before, what sort of security did you put on access to this page ? .

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