Re: Web service Impersonatation?

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From: Frank Wisniewski (fpw23_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09:56:20 -0600

Thanks Nicholas,

But how do you know which Principal is being used by your code. Lets say I
have a routine that writes a file to the local directory, how do I ensure
that code is using my impersonated users rights? 

-- 
Frank Wisniewski MCSE 4.0, MCP+I, A+
f p w 2 3 @ h o t m a i l . c o m
"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mvp@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote in
message news:%23GhWBSH3EHA.2676@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Frank,
>
>     No, they should not.  When you impersonate through the WindowsIdentity
> object, it does not change the current principal on the thread.  The
reason
> for this is that you can have different implementations of IPrincipal
which
> don't necessarily map to windows users and groups.  To that end, having
> WindowsIdentity change the current thread's principal would be wrong.
>
>     Hope this helps.
>
>
> -- 
>                - Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
>                - mvp@spam.guard.caspershouse.com
>
> "Frank Wisniewski" <fpw23@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:41b5cf8c$1_2@Usenet.com...
> > When I set up impersonation in the web.config file and specify a user
and
> > password I get strange results.  This line of code will get me the user
> > account I set to impersonate:
> > System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name
> >
> > This line of code will get me my user account ever time:
> >
> > System.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity.Name
> >
> > What's the difference? shouldn't they both be the user I am trying to
> > impersonate?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > Frank Wisniewski MCSE 4.0, MCP+I, A+
> > f p w 2 3 @ h o t m a i l . c o m
> >
> >
>
>

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