Passing Client Certificate from asp.net app

From: Marten Engblom (martene@unitedcommerce.com)
Date: 03/25/03 

From: "Marten Engblom" <martene@unitedcommerce.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:41:39 -0800

I am interacting with a webservice that requires a client certificate for
authentication. I have retreived the certificate and it gives me access to
the webservice (I can browse to t etc).

I wrote a .Net library that encapsulates loading the cert (which I exported
to a .cer file), the communication with the webservice and so forth, and a
little windows app to test the library. Everything is hunky dory so far.

The problem is that when I am calling the encapsulating library from a
asp.net web application, access to the webservice is denied (HTTP 403:
Forbidden).

I am guessing that this is because the client certificate is personal and
installed for the user account under which it was retrevied and installed,
and the web app is running under a different account, which cannot use the
cert.

So, what I need to do is to make the web app run under the same account
under which the certificate was retreived (correct me if I am wrong or there
is another better way). How can I do this?

Thanks in advance,
Marten Engblom

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