asp.net run program with Administrator account

asp.net permissions administrator

Tomas · Dec 9, 2009 · Viewed 7.4k times · Source

I need to run one console application from ASP.NET application using Administrator account and with Desktop interaction enabled. I have tried code below, console app runs ok but within NETWORK SERVICE account. Any ideas how to run console under Administrator account?

    string enginePath = Server.MapPath(@"~/engine/MyConsole.exe");
    System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo info = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo(enginePath, "");
    System.Diagnostics.Process p = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(info);            
    p.WaitForExit();

Regards, Tomas

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you could use impersonation, there is an example here

personally i dont like impersonation in asp.net, you need to deal with passwords either not being changed or changing them in code. Is there no way to run what you want as the asp.net user?

edit:

You could acyually impersonate the network service by using "NETWORK SERVICE" as the user name, that would at least allieviate the password issues a little,

asp.net run program with Administrator account

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