Ways around putting a password in code

Question

I have a bit of code that needs to run with elevated privileges (more that I want the rest of my code running at).

I have my code that sets up the Impersonation work

Answer 1

Vaccano,

I would recommend investigating the data protection API (DPAPI) for what you're attempting to achieve. It is considered part of the solution in many best practice approaches to reversibly storing passwords needed by applications.

A good article discussing the DPAPI (and other techniques + concerns) can be found here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164054.aspx

With C# 2.0, P/Invoking isn't even required; managed wrappers exist:

http://blogs.freshlogicstudios.com/Posts/View.aspx?Id=41ca5a99-ddc0-4d0a-9919-2ce10bf50c7e

I hope this helps!