single sign on for windows applications or windows services

[Pouria]

Hi,

Does anyone have any experience with single sign on for .Net windows
applications or windows services? So the idea is to be able to use the
user credentials from logging into windows to authenticate the user
for using a windows application or windows service. I have found some
information on the web on how this can be done for a web application
(which relies on internet explorer for the most part) but nothing for
windows applications or services. Can someone point me in the right
direction?

Best regards,
Pouria

[Norman Yuan]

For windows form/desktop applications, the OS automatically uses the login
user's credential to run them, unless the login user uses "RunAs" method and
supplies corresponding credential.

As for Windows services, it can be configured to run under certain user
account, so it does not have to rely on a logged in user to run it. If your
app only need to run when a user is logged in, then you do not need a
Windows service.

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Hi,

Does anyone have any experience with single sign on for .Net windows
applications or windows services? So the idea is to be able to use the
user credentials from logging into windows to authenticate the user
for using a windows application or windows service. I have found some
information on the web on how this can be done for a web application
(which relies on internet explorer for the most part) but nothing for
windows applications or services. Can someone point me in the right
direction?

Best regards,
Pouria