Impersonating a Windows user

Question

I am using the code to impersonate a user account to get access to a file share.

public class Impersonator :
    IDisposable
{
    #region Public methods.
           


        

Answer 1

Instead of using your Impersonator class, what happens when you call Process.Start and pass in a ProcessStartInfo instance that contains the username, password and domain that you want to run the process as?

Perhaps, if that works, then your Impersonator class should create a ProcessStartInfo instance and use that to create new processes (encapsulate that within the class itself).

var psi = new ProcessStartInfo("explorer.exe", @"/root,\\server01-Prod\abc");
psi.Domain = domain;
psi.UserName = username;
psi.Password = password;
psi.WorkingDirectory = workingDir;

Process.Start(psi);

Also, per the MSDN docs...

Setting the Domain, UserName, and the Password properties in a ProcessStartInfo object is the recommended practice for starting a process with user credentials.

You should also set the working directory when starting a process with different user creds.