Help: OWSADM hangs when executing from C# web service

[Abhi]

Hi-

I'm trying to execute the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
Shared\Web Server Extensions\50\b in\OWSADM.EXE programmaticall y from a
shell using the process.Start() method. I'm also impersonating as the
admin user and providing the login credentials through the
process.StartIn fo.UserName and process.StartIn fo.Password attributes.

Process process = new Process();
process.StartIn fo.FileName = @"C:\Program Files\Common
Files....\WSADM .EXE";
process.StartIn fo.UseShellExec ute = false;
process.StartIn fo.RedirectStan dardOutput = true;
process.StartIn fo.RedirectStan dardError = true;

process.StartIn fo.Arguments = "-o install -p /LM/W3SVC/" + MyWebDir +
@" -u Admin"

process.StartIn fo.UserName = "<Admin Name Here>";
process.StartIn fo.Password = ConvertToSecure String("<Admin Password
Here>");
process.Start() ;
process.WaitFor Exit();
string output = process.Standar dOutput.ReadToE nd();
string error = process.Standar dError.ReadToEn d();
I've implemented ConvertToSecure String my self to convert a string into
a SecureString

private SecureString ConvertToSecure String(string str)
{
SecureString secureString = new SecureString();
foreach (char c in str)
{
secureString.Ap pendChar(c);
}
return secureString;
}
For some reason when I execute the Start() method then the OWSADM hangs
in memory. It does not return any error code or any other output. If I
provide an invalid password then it does complain about login failures.

The same command works fine if I choose to run it directly from the
command prompt on that machine. However it does not run from my C# web
method.

The machine is running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise edition. (3.06
GHz, 4 GB or RAM!)

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!