Rookie: How to run application with specific user account?

[Dave Guenthner]

Hi. I have a c# console application that works fine when
it is executed under the context of a user account who is
Administrator of the local machine. However, my
production environment, no end user is a full
Administrator of their machine. Is there a best practice
or way out there to simply specify the credentials of a
user account which has the Admin rights for this app to
run under while being logged into machine with say a
simply domain user account?

Thanks in adavance.

Dave

 

[John Timney \(Microsoft MVP\)]

One way to run apps as another user is to run it from scheduler, that way
you can add credentials right into the scheduler settings. Its only really
appropriate if your app requires no interaction however as it runs in the
background.

Another approach is to use impersonation
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/cpimpersonation1.asp

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Regards

John Timney (Microsoft ASP.NET MVP)
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