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Demasterpl
Demasterpl

Reputation: 2133

How To Restart IIS without Admin Rights in C#

What code do I need for a C# application to restart the user's IIS while the user does not have Admin rights?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2130

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Winfield Trail
Winfield Trail

Reputation: 5695

I don't think it's possible through code alone (and if it was, it'd be an exploit.)

You'd need to write a daemon that ran as a privileged user that accepted restart commands from unprivileged sources, say by checking for the existence of a lockfile or similar, or accepting commands over a socket, and then restarted the server accordingly.

Which would be a serious security risk, still, but whatever floats your boat.

It still might be better to think hard about why you want to do this. I think you'll find that whatever criteria prevent you from making the relevant user an IIS admin are excellent arguments for why the user shouldn't be rebooting IIS either.

Upvotes: 4

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