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Digital Rant
Digital Rant

Reputation: 99

User privileges required for System.DirectoryServices

I'm using System.DirectoryServices to list the status of websites running on a server. Currently I'm using impersonation of an admin account for this to run but I'd prefer to have a specific user account with the bare minimum privileges.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 205

Answers (1)

David Archer
David Archer

Reputation: 2121

From the MS documentation, it looks like DirectoryServices just delegates calls to IIS:// directory entries to the IIS ADSI provider. The IIS ADSI Provider docs state that you need to run it as a member of the local administrators group:

When using ADSI to configure IIS, ensure that the user account of the person running the script is a member of the administrators group or use LogonAdmin to run the script under the credentials of an administrator.

Upvotes: 1

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