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

You can use safe-config nuget package. Internally it uses data protection api to encrypt and decrypt data.

//Save some configuration data at folder data\temp\
var configManager = new ConfigManager()
    .WithOptions(DataProtectionScope.CurrentUser)
    .Set("password", "my-massword")
    .AtFolder(@"data\temp\")
    .Save();

    ...

//Load configuration data
var loadedValue = new ConfigManager()
    .AtFolder(@"data\temp\")
    .Load()
    .Get("password");