Question - When should I use programmatic impersonation

J.D. Meier, Alex Mackman, Blaine Wastell, Prashant Bansode, Andy Wigley, Kishore Gopalan

Applies to

ASP.NET 2.0

Answer:

If your application is such that it uses the ASP.NET worker process Identity for the most part and you only want to temporarily impersonate the original caller (or any other identity) to perform specific set of operations or access specific resources, you should use programmatic impersonation.

Additional Resources

For more information on using programmatic impersonation, see "How To: Use Impersonation and Delegation in ASP.NET 2.0" at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/PAGHT000023.asp

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Author: J.D. Meier, Alex Mackman, Blaine Wastell, Prashant Bansode, Andy Wigley, Kishore Gopalan

Category: Impersonation and Delegation

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Source: patterns & practices Library

Status: Release

Technology: ASP.NET 2.0

Title: Question - When should I use programmatic impersonation

Topic: Security

Type: Question and Answer

ID: 21acd4cb-1c47-4a78-9b40-0a754011cfad