How can I perform action from ASP.NET MVC with different user credentials?

Question

Hopefully this explanation will make sense, but what is the best way (if it is even possible) to pass along user credentials to preform a specific application from an ASP.NET MVC application. Currently I am working on trying to create directories on another server, we can't do this using the generic credentials that the application is running with; however, we have been told that we can if we pass the credentials of the user currently using the application along.

Currently we are running on IIS 6.0 but will be moving to IIS 7.0 in the near future and likewise we are using Integrated Windows authentication for the web applications.

Answer 1

Yes. You should take a look at User property and the IIS Authenticated methods

Answer 2

Here is a KB article which describes a few ways of doing user impersonation.

Note that some of their examples seem to be using the current authenticated user, but you can obviously adapt this to use whatever user you'd like.

Edit: I've used code very much like in the section "Impersonate a Specific User in Code" to access files on a remote share using the credentials of a user with access to said share. Pretty straight forward.