Impersonation is a process whereby an application assumes another identity or security context during execution.
Questions tagged [impersonation]
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IIS impersonation returns app pool user
I am writing an application allowing users to manage groups in Active Directory. I want to use the identity of the currently logged in user so that they do not have to log into the application. The application works without issue remotely but after…
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Run powershell as logged windows user in ASP.net intranet
I'm creating MVC intranet application in ASP.NET C# with Windows authentification , and I need run an external powershell script with users credential.
I add in my web.config file.
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WNetAddConnection2 in Windows 7 with Impersonation and no Error Code
I'm doing some crazy impersonation stuff to get around UAC dialogs in Windows 7 so the user does not have to interact with the UI (I have the admin creds of course).
I have a process running as the Administrator and elevated past UAC. The issue…
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C# Start Process with logged on user credentials
I am running a winforms application with elevated user rights (emulated Run As as a different domain administrator account), however I want to start a sub process of opening a webbrowser to a URL with the currently logged on user rights as opposed…
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Linq to SQL Impersonation
I have an ASP.MVC 3.0 application. My solution is containing a Linq to SQL project (.dbml). I0ve made the choice to put it in a different project and not in the web application project. I also have another project which connect "mannually" to the…
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Impersonation and Registry Manipulation in Vista\Win7
I need to create a program that has access to HKLM when running in a non-admin session. I have access to the admin credentials so impersonation seems to be an option.The sequence of Win32 calls…
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How do I use SecureZeroMemory with LogonUser when impersonating a user?
When is it necessary or recommended to add the function SecureZeroMemory?
Neither this MSFT sample for WindowsImpersonationContext, or these Stackoverflow questions link link2 even mention the SecureZeroMemory function.
Should I implement this…
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Running a classic ASP page as under IIS account when Windows auth is enabled
I've got windows authentication enabled on an ASP page so that I can grab the current user's username. This forces the ASP page to run as that user. I want to lock some files down that are currently being accessed by that page. Is there a way to…
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Can't Impersonate on Windows Service
I am using Impersonation in my program. I don't have any problem. However, when I create Windows Service, I am having an exception while impersonating. What can be the problem? In my account, I can successfully apply impersonation but windows…
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WCF service inaccessible after logging in
I'm having a WCF issue when deploying to our pre-production environment. It is working fine locally.
The AJAX message I'm getting is that there has been a parse error, but I am unable to get any trace logging going on the preprod server, but…
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C# SSIS Package User
I am trying to run an SSIS package from C# which I have working by itself. The problem I am having i that I want to have the user for the package set on the fly. I set up an impersonator class that seems to be working, yet the package is throwing…
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Impersonation for sp_OA* on SQL Server 2000
Is there any way to impersonate for sp_OA* calls? I'm specifically using this for file system management, and I'm doing everything in TSQL to avoid DTS since there's a possibility of upgrading to 2005 and I want this solution to be cross-version. …
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uploading file to network drive folder
My Server Machine includes:
IIS 7.
Window server 2008.
Network Drive mapped as Z drive which is of Linux machine.
ASP.NET MVC 3 application hosted on server machine.
Problems:
I have built asp.net mvc 3 application that can upload the mulitiple…
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Is Impersonation in IIS unsafe?
I'm a newbie. For impersonation in IIS, what do you think about it? I think it's unsafe. How can IIS spawn a Win32 thread to handle user request with user's identity? Does this mean this thread can do anything using user's identity without user's…
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Is it possible to create a NetworkCredential object from the current HTTP context?
This is related to this question which hasn’t had much success in the context of SharpSVN so I’m rephrasing in a pure .NET security context. I’m wondering if it’s possible to create a NetworkCredential object based on the current logged on user in…
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