I'm currently using a homegrown method to run a process as a different user in Vista, and I can't escape the feeling that's it hack-ish and less than ideal (in addition to the fact that it craps out UAC, crashing my app with a security exception, and forcing me to disable UAC altogether). My process consists of two projects (so two EXE f...
For debugging purposes only, I'd like to change the security context or token of a running process. How can I do this? I don't want to elevate privileges, but change the process to use a different set of credentials. ...
How to start a thread in the security context of a different user? When a process starts a thread normally the security context is also passed but how to launch a thread in a different security context with the principal of a different user? ...
Hi All, I have read in many forums that mapped drives are not accessible from a service as no user is logged on. Question 1) I tried making my service as a log on - as some account and i had my network drive mapped in that very account. The service still cannot access it. Why? Question 2) From the same sevice, i invoke another process...
One thing that I've always hated more than just about anything in MS SQL Server is the way that security works. The security context constantly switches if you look at the server funny and it's often very hard (for me anyway) to predict or debug. In dealing with an issue today, I though, "I wish I could just add a line to my code that w...