I have a WCF service hosted in IIS that is retrieving data from multiple sources (all SQL Server). With each data source, I have to impersonate a different Active Directory user to connect to the database. I am using Entity Framework v6.1.1 for two of the data sources. Integrated Security is set to True in the connection strings, too.
I use the example below to set the impersonated user, where the impersonated user is a System.Security.Principal.WindowsImpersonationContext
that I set from configuration:
internal async Task<List<string>> GetItemsByLookupItemsAsync(List<string> lookupItems) { var result = new List<string>(); using (var db = new EntityFrameworkDb()) { var query = from item in db.Table where lookupItems.Contains(item.LookupColumn) select item.StringColumn; var queryResult = new List<string>(); using (GetImpersonatedUser()) { queryResult.AddRange(await query.ToListAsync()); } result.AddRange(queryResult.OrderBy(e => e)); } return result; }
The problem is that the previous code throws a SqlException
saying that the account running the web service can not log on to the database. It appears that when I hit the await
I lose the impersonation context.
What are some suggestions to solve this problem?