Access denied when asking for the count of all webs - SharePoint WSS 3.0 SP2

Question

I'm trying to list all the links on all the SharePoint web sites (parent and sub). When I'm logged in as the admin user it works just fine. However, when I sign on as a normal user I get an access denied error. And the error is thrown when I check the count property of the SPWebCollection.

SPSite oSiteCollection = SPContext.Current.Site;
SPWebCollection collWebsite = oSiteCollection.AllWebs;

StringBuilder labelText = new StringBuilder();

for (int i = 0; i < collWebsite.Count; i++) // <---- Access denied on count
{ // get links }

I tried adding giving my normal user full site control and I still received the access denied error. Any idea what access rule is being checked when accessing the count property?

Answer 1

You can try and use your application pool's account using the RunWithElevatedPrivileges method on SPSecurity.

SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
   SPSite oSiteCollection = SPContext.Current.Site;
   SPWebCollection collWebsite = oSiteCollection.AllWebs;

   StringBuilder labelText = new StringBuilder();

   for (int i = 0; i < collWebsite.Count; i++) // <---- Access denied on count
   { // get links }
});