Re: ASP.NET Impersonation / delegation

From: bruce barker (nospam_brubar_at_safeco.com)
Date: 04/28/04

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    you are on the right track. ntlm will not delegate even if your security
    team allowed delegation, only digest allows delegation.

    on win2k you have no choice but to set SE_TCB_NAME (this is removed in xp).
    its a fairly safe priviledge. its original intent was to control Trojan
    horses (programs that pretended to be the login program).

    -- bruce (sqlwork.com)

    "Magdelin" <magdelinsuja@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
    news:9C2BA3A9-A627-46B0-9215-EA8C99E0F978@microsoft.com...
    > Hi all,
    >
    > I am trying to implement ASP.NET impersonation/delegation in an intranet
    application in C#. The presentation layer developed in ASP.NET accesses the
    business logic via .net remoting. The business logic in-turn accesses the
    other network resources such as the SQL Server and the Active Directory.
    > Both the business logic and the web application are deployed in IIS
    installed on two separate Win2k servers. Since, the application requires
    "Windows Authentication" in order to implement the declarative Role-based
    security, both business and presentation layers are configured for
    impersonation, by including the <identity impersonate="true"/> tag in their
    respective web.config files. The directory security of business and web
    applications hosted in IIS is configured for "Integrated Windows
    Authentication". The anonymous, digest and basic authentication options are
    not selected.
    >
    > With the above mentioned configuration, if the business logic tries to
    access the active directory, a COMexception occurs with the error message
    "An operation error has occurred". I believe this error has occurred because
    the impersonated account and the computer on which the business logic runs
    are not trusted for delegation by the Domain controller. The following links
    explains the reason for such an error.
    >
    > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810572
    > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=325894
    > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=264921
    >
    > Link to the newsgroup search
    >
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/managed/default.aspx?query=double+hop&d
    g=&cat=en-us-msdnman&lang=en&cr=US&pt=&catlist=&dglist=&ptlist=
    >
    > Since our security team considers trusting win2k server for delegation to
    be a major security risk, I haven't had the opportunity, to test the
    business logic with the trusted configuration myself. From the trace log it
    is clear that the authentication type is NTLM and the account used to test
    the business logic has sufficient privileges to query the Active Directory
    (AD). The application is successful in querying the AD when account
    properties (userName and password) are included in the <Identity> tag.
    >
    > Fortunately, I found few delegation alternatives in MSDN at
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsent7/html
    /vxconaspnetdelegation.asp
    >
    > The WindowsImpersonationContext.Impersonate() is now considered as the
    best alternative for impersonating an account that is specially created for
    this purpose. The role based security will be implemented as before but for
    accessing resources such as AD and SQL Server the new helper account will be
    used. The account that currently runs the process will be impersonated with
    a special helper account which will have sufficient privileges to
    impersonate as well as query the AD. Once the task with the AD is completed,
    the windows identity will revert back to its original credentials. The
    following link details how to make such impersonation, possible.
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/htm
    l/cpconImpersonatingReverting.asp
    >
    > When the impersonation and reversion is tried on the win2k server, I
    receive the error message "1314: The required privilege is not held by
    client". I know that the LogonUser API requires "Act as part of the
    operating system (SE_TCB_NAME)" privilege. But, I would like to grant the
    helper account with least possible privilege.
    >
    > Is there a privilege other than the "SE_TCB_NAME" that has fewer
    privileges but can still make the LogonUser API work? Is there a better
    alternative for ASP.NET impersonation/delegation?
    >
    > Any ideas or pointers to articles would be greatly appreciated.
    >
    > Thanks in advance.
    > Magdelin


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