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Impersonation is a process whereby an application assumes another identity or security context during execution.

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TFS 2010 - Why am I getting "TF30063 You are not authorized to access.." error when impersonating?

I am attempting to create a bug in TFS2010 by impersonating a user but always get "TF30063 You are not authorized to access.." I first authenticate using a service account and then attempt to impersonate a separate user account. I can successfully…
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How to set ASP.NET security impersonation

I am going through http://www.codeassociate.com/caapi/html/T_CA_Common_Security_Impersonate.htm I don't want to hard-code domain\username and password. Is it possible to get the current Windows user credentials and pass it?
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Logoff after logonuser on C#

I use advapi32.dll's logonuser method to access data over our network. I know it change the thread's user to the information i give it, but i was wondering if there's a way to reverse it. I want to access the data and then return to the local user…
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Enabling Impersonation in IIS 7.5 via Powershell

I hope someone can help, I am trying to enable enable "ASP.Net Impersonation" under the Authenticatuin section in IIS7, I have enabled other sections using the following command: Set-WebConfigurationProperty ` -filter…
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Cannot impersonate GCP ServiceAccount even after granting "Service Account Token Creator" role

I have 2 ServiceAccounts in my Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Project owner executor The owner ServiceAccount has 1 project-wide role attached to it: "Owner" - for the project The executor ServiceAccount has ONLY 2 specific roles attached to it (as…
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Impersonation and delegation (with SQL Server) in ASP.NET

I've written a simple ASP.NET application that works as a frontend for a simple MSSQL database. The application is accessible over the Internet. There are two physical servers involved: a WS2008R2 Active Directory domain controller which is also…
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Running NUnit integration tests with different credentials

I am running integration tests with C#, NUnit, and SQL Server 2008 r2 dev edition database. Setting up my fixture includes creating a new database and loading test data, so I need dbo privileges for that. However, I want to run the tests themselves…
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ASP.NET impersonation problem (part 2)

This is a follow on to a previous post about being unable to impersonate a currently logged in Windows user. There were many good suggestions, but the previous thread was getting messy, so I am resetting with this post. Hopefully with the current…
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Grant additional privilege to impersonating thread

My program, "UP", needs to be able to mount VHDX files from network locations. The difficulty is that any thread calling OpenVirtualDisk(...) upon a network location needs to have both SE_MANAGE_VOLUME_PRIVILEGE, which most of my users will not…
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Help understanding impersonation

Could somebody please help me understand the concept of 'impersonation'? The way I understand it is that when impersonation occurs, code executes on behalf of some identity. So, for a web page, as long as impersonation is disabled, the web page…
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how to write tests that impersonates different users?

My Winforms app set permissions based on the group membership found in the current process. I just made a unit test in MSTEST. I'd like to run it as other users so I can verify the expected behavior. Here's what I'm kind of shooting for: …
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"service cannot be activated because it requires asp net compatibility", but I need it for impersonation

I posted a question yesterday about how to enable impersonation using WCF services here: WCF service not impersonating specified user in config? I enabled aspnetCompatibilityMode but when I update my service proxy, it says "the service cannot be…
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WindowsIdentity.Impersonate throws ''Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED))' after April 2018 (1803) update

Our installer app uses the following code to verify service account permissions: try { using (svcIdentity.Impersonate()) { using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(builder.ConnectionString)) // <<< { …
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Start-job results in "The background process reported an error with the following message: ."

I have a simple Powershell script (that's being run in a step in Octopus deploy) that I'm trying to run as another user. We need it for future steps (each application on our platform runs as its own user account, and I need to be able to run an…
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How to use WindowsIdentity.RunImpersonated(handle, action);

We are trying to use RunImpersonated(handle, action); to be able to perform a REST call from a webserver but we have a hard time doing so. Project i ASP.NET Core 2.0 MVC. We have the following general method made to establish a imp. context on…
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