I have an application that runs with the system user. I need that some code in the app runs on user context (with the user itself). For example i need to use the webclient in user context because that way my firewall recognize the username, but later i need to run some other code ex. Running a exe in system context (with system user) because i need the privileges.
Is there a way to do this?.
Thanks!!!
I have used this code to impersonate certain operations
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Security.Principal;
using NLog;
namespace Core.Impersonation
{
public class ImpersonatedUser : IDisposable
{
private static Logger logger = LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger();
IntPtr userHandle;
WindowsImpersonationContext impersonationContext;
public ImpersonatedUser(string user, string domain, string password)
{
logger.Debug("Impersonating user: " + domain + @"\" + user);
userHandle = IntPtr.Zero;
bool loggedOn = LogonUser(
user,
domain,
password,
LogonType.Interactive,
LogonProvider.Default,
out userHandle);
if (!loggedOn)
throw new Win32Exception(Marshal.GetLastWin32Error());
// Begin impersonating the user
impersonationContext = WindowsIdentity.Impersonate(userHandle);
}
public void Dispose()
{
if (userHandle != IntPtr.Zero)
{
CloseHandle(userHandle);
userHandle = IntPtr.Zero;
impersonationContext.Undo();
logger.Debug("Finished Impersonating user");
}
}
[DllImport("advapi32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
static extern bool LogonUser(
string lpszUsername,
string lpszDomain,
string lpszPassword,
LogonType dwLogonType,
LogonProvider dwLogonProvider,
out IntPtr phToken
);
[DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
static extern bool CloseHandle(IntPtr hHandle);
enum LogonType : int
{
Interactive = 2,
Network = 3,
Batch = 4,
Service = 5,
NetworkCleartext = 8,
NewCredentials = 9,
}
enum LogonProvider : int
{
Default = 0,
}
}
}
and then usage:
using (var i = new ImpersonatedUser("someLogin", "someDomain", "thePassword"))
{
var u = System.Environment.UserName;
}