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Programmatic Account Impersonation

Does anyone know if it is possible to write an application so that if
a user enters their NT username and password the application's
security context can be changed to run under their account.

In the same way that you can set up COM+ or Task Scheduler to run
under a different account by entering in the username and password of
that account.

Any help would be appreciated.

Scott
Jul 21 '05 #1
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If you are talking about just an application, then I believe the process
that the application runs in inherits the current identity. If I login as
John Smith, then the application will run within the context of John Smith.
If another people later logs in, the current context will be applied
accordingly, I think.

COM+ and Services and Scheduled tasks are different in that they need to be
able to run in contexts that are independent of the current user. They may
also need to run when no user is logged in.

Now, application can impersonate other people. I have not done this, but
you can check out the WindowsIdentity.Impersonate method and see if this
helps.

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Does anyone know if it is possible to write an application so that if
a user enters their NT username and password the application's
security context can be changed to run under their account.

In the same way that you can set up COM+ or Task Scheduler to run
under a different account by entering in the username and password of
that account.

Any help would be appreciated.

Scott

Jul 21 '05 #2

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