Test username and password

[jnc]

Hey everyone,

I have written an app which needs to install and uninstall windows services
periodically. I have provided an interface in which the user can enter the
user account the service should run under and also the password.

What I would like to be able to do is test the password is correct before
applying it to the windows service. Is there any easy way to do this,a
pointer to a code example in vb.net or c# would be great.

Thanks for you help.

Jim

[Cor Ligthert]

Jnc.

Any reason that you don't use the windows "principal" feature (by instance
the InRole) from dotNet

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...nroletopic.asp

I hope this helps,

Cor

[jnc]

"Cor Ligthert" wrote:

Jnc.

Any reason that you don't use the windows "principal" feature (by instance
the InRole) from dotNet

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...nroletopic.asp

I hope this helps,

Cor
Not sure how this helps me to test the password?

[Jakob Christensen]

You can use the Win32 API function CredUIConfirmCredentials for this. This
link shows you how:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...redentials.asp

HTH, Jakob.

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"jnc" wrote:

"Cor Ligthert" wrote:

Jnc.

Any reason that you don't use the windows "principal" feature (by instance
the InRole) from dotNet

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...nroletopic.asp

I hope this helps,

Cor
Not sure how this helps me to test the password?

[Cor Ligthert]

Not sure how this helps me to test the password?

You don't need that, because the user is already loged in with that.

Cor