Re: How to get the WindowsIdentity of the caller of my excutable?

From: Cindy Liu (CindyLiu_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:41:02 -0700

If COM+ can do it easily, can you tell me how?

Since there is no way to get the identity of the caller from .Net remoting object hosted by Windows service, so I decide to pass the identity of the caller with the methods of my remoting object. The caller of my remoting object is COM+ dll and its callers are asp pages. So now I want to get the identity of caller from COM+.

Thanks for your help!!!
Cindy

"Alek Davis" wrote:

> I am confused: which module do you want to detect the identity of the
> caller: COM+ DLL or remoting object hosted in a Windows service. COM+ must
> be able to do it easily, but not the remoting object.
>
> Alek
>
> "Cindy Liu" <CindyLiu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F1F901AA-883F-4AF7-BEFE-A425BDB6A20E@microsoft.com...
> > Yes, my Windows service hosts a .Net remoting object, and I have a COM+
> dll talking to it from different computer, and a web server on the same box
> calling COM+ methods. Now I want to pass WondowsIdentity token from COM+ dll
> to my Windows service. Can COM+ dll determine who is the caller, or my web
> server has to get the token and pass to COM+ dll?
> >
> > "Alek Davis" wrote:
> >
> > > Cindy,
> > >
> > > I assume that your Windows service encapsulates a .NET remoting object;
> > > otherwise, your question does not make much sense: a regular Windows
> service
> > > just runs on its own with the identity defined in the Service Control
> > > Manager (which is trivial to obtain). If my assumption is correct, you
> are
> > > out of luck, because CLR does not support any security aspects in .NET
> > > remoting objects running inside of Windows services. You options would
> be
> > > to: (a) host your .NET remoting object in an ASP.NET application instead
> of
> > > Windows service; (b) use SSPI (I cannot comment on this, but there are
> some
> > > references on the Web); or (c) use a commercial product like
> GenuineChannels
> > > (see http://www.genuinechannels.com/).
> > >
> > > Alek
> > >
> > > "Cindy Liu" <CindyLiu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > news:EE740459-E1C4-4AAE-8E5E-A6DB5C72FE27@microsoft.com...
> > > > Hi Everyone,
> > > >
> > > > I created my Windows service. I want to get the WindowsIdentity of the
> > > caller that calls my method in my Windows service. How do I do that?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance!!!
> > > > Cindy
> > >
> > >
> > >
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