Want my WCF service to run under the administrator account

Question

Hi,

How can I configure my WCF service to run under the administrator account? (this is not for production, just testing).

Is it simply a web.config tweak?

IIS 7 hosted WCF service.

Answer 1

If you are hosting it as an ASP.NET service, you should run IIS process as the administrator account. If you are hosting it under a Windows service, you should configure it to run as an administrator.

Answer 2

under IIS 7 make sure the service runs under an application pool configured to run under the desired user.

Answer 3

Even with the app pool running as the desired user I still dont seem to have all the permissions of the user.

I'm trying to access sc.exe, but I get back error 5