Impersonation is a process whereby an application assumes another identity or security context during execution.
Questions tagged [impersonation]
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Does Impersonation work in ASP.NET MVC
I am having issues with Impersonation in an ASP.NET MVC application, and just want to check if there are any known issues.
Thanks.

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How can I impersonate a different user while opening a virtual directory?
We have an ASP.NET (3.5) application which uses Forms Authentication to authenticate accounts. On the logon form, I also get a windows login token using LogonUser, which I use to impersonate the logged on user for browsing private directories (the…

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Error with windows impersonation code in webconfig file
I have the following section declared in the webconfig file to allow impersonation , I have shared the folder to public access within the network on the other machine
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BAD IMPERSONATION in IIS Express with Basic Auth for all static requests
We are attempting to use Basic Authentication in a project, which generally works fine in our integration and QA environment or even running locally with IIS 7.5. But running locally in IIS Express we get some very strange issues -- any static…

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Windows service writing files to network share
I have a windows service running which moves files from a watched folder (IO.FileSystemWacher) to a UNC share on a network.
The network share is secured, but the share has full control for the Service user; despite this I get problems with the file…

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Impersonation and Delegation within a MVC 3 application on IIS 7.5
Given the follow scenario:
Windows 2008 R2 x64 web server with IIS 7.5, Server 1
Windows 2003 R2 x64 file server, Server 2
MVC 3 application with Windows authentication and impersonation
(authenticated user)
Configured Server 1 as 'Trusted…

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ASP.Net Directory Security
I have a directory on the root of my website which contains some files(usually html). These files should be accessed only for the logged-in user. How can I achieve this? I believe this could be done using impersonation but I don't have any idea …

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ASP.NET Membership - Which user is authenticated and which user is impersonated?
i'm a little confused while trying to find out how ActiveDirectory and ASP.NET Membership work... I've created a new MVC project and removed the AccountController / Views. I've changed the Web.Config so that it uses ActiveDirectory and automatically…

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Impersonating domain user in WPF - UnauthorizedAccess
I am trying to impersonate a domain user account in a WPF application so the application can write to a folder on the network. The domain user has sufficient rights to write to this location.
I'm using some code found on the net to perform the…
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System.Diagnostics.Process impersonating other user
I have the following code which is working. My callback method is called with the program's output as it is generated.
var proc = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
//proc.StartInfo.Domain = DOMAIN;
//proc.StartInfo.UserName =…

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ASP.NET Impersonation make windows Identity flow across to SQL Server
I have a website with Impersonation turned on.
IIS Windows Authentication is on and Anonymous Access is OFF.
SQL Server security has a Domain\TestUser account added
I logged on with Domain\TestUser.
Browsing a test page shows that HttpContext is set…

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asp.net impersonate from server in domain to server outside domain
Im using this code http://platinumdogs.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/net-c-impersonation-with-network-credentials/#comment-770 to connect from a machine in the domain to a machine outside the domain.
The web-application I wrote connects from a webserver…

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Impersonation not working on HTTP Handler on IIS7
I have an http handler that saves files on a remote location. For doing this I need specific permissions and the entire application is configured to work with impersonation (web.config setting)
This works perfect for all the pages (some other pages…

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Access Denied for Process.Start() when
My head is flat from banging my head with this issue.
I have set for AD things but when I re-run the app, I get "Accesss Denied" error when Process.Start() is trying to run a command.
So I put:

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PsExec hangs without output when not using -d or -i
I'm starting PsExec inside a WCF web service to execute a remote command and capture it's output.
It's being run while impersonating a certain user.
When trying to run a non-GUI command (like ping, tracert..), PsExec just hangs unless I use -d or…

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