How do I impersonate a user for start/stop a windows service?

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Hi ,
I have a windows form that manipulate a windows service with service controller.
When I try to start it, the application return me "access denied".
If I run the application as admin, I can start it and stop it.
If I run the application as normal user i can't do anything.
I have to impersonate a user who has admin permission on a machine and then manipulate that.
Any idea?
Thank you very much

Posted 4-May-15 21:09pm

gregorio89

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2015-05-04T21:22:00

Solution 1

See https://www.google.com/search?q=windows%20impersonate%20user[^].

Posted 4-May-15 21:22pm

Richard MacCutchan

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gregorio89 5-May-15 3:24am

I have already follow this post
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/14358/User-Impersonation-in-NET
but if I impersonate my user on my machine I can't do anything.

Richard MacCutchan 5-May-15 4:22am

Sorry, you need to edit your question and explain exactly what the issue is. We cannot guess what "I can't do anything" is supposed to mean.

gregorio89 5-May-15 4:34am

i'll try to explain:
If I try to start a service with my user (without permission), I obtain
Impossible to start service "service name" on the computer "computername".
If I try to start a service with a domain user (with permission),
I obtain "the service did not start due to an error when accessing".

Richard MacCutchan 5-May-15 4:39am

Well, again, we cannot guess what error. You really need to collect some proper information if you want people to help you.