CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c#securityvisual-studio-2012
Omegacron
Omegacron

Reputation: 218

Force console app to run using specific account

I have a console app I've built in VS2012 using C#. The EXE is located on a shared drive and can be run by any user, but I always want the EXE to run using a specific system account we have setup in AD. Essentially, I want to programmatically imitate right-clicking the EXE and doing "Run As..." instead of running under the current user who started it.

How can I force my code to always run under a specific account/password?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4505

Answers (1)

Xaruth
Xaruth

Reputation: 4104

I wrote this for one of my app. Hope it can help you ;)

public partial class App : Application
{
    protected override void OnStartup(StartupEventArgs e)
    {
        // Launch itself as administrator
        ProcessStartInfo proc = new ProcessStartInfo();

        // this parameter is very important
        proc.UseShellExecute = true;

        proc.WorkingDirectory = Environment.CurrentDirectory;
        proc.FileName = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location;

        // optional. Depend on your app
        proc.Arguments = this.GetCommandLine();

        proc.Verb = "runas";
        proc.UserName = "XXXX";
        proc.Password = "XXXX";

        try
        {
            Process elevatedProcess = Process.Start(proc);

            elevatedProcess.WaitForExit();
            exitCode = elevatedProcess.ExitCode;
        }
        catch
        {
            // The user refused the elevation.
            // Do nothing and return directly ...
            exitCode = -1;
        }

        // Quit itself
        Environment.Exit(exitCode);  
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

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