Re: Impersonate a user from a service

From: booster (saltynuts2002@msn.com)
Date: 02/04/03 

From: "booster" <saltynuts2002@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:39:01 -0500

then you're not doing it properly. I've done this from a service as well and
have used it to read the users home dir on a remote comp that he only has
access to
"RaminDeja" <ramindeja@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
news:6512f1b1.0302040712.2bd05874@posting.google.com...
> Thanks for your response,
>
> I know about the API and I actually use it, but the environment and
> the profile still correspond to the System Local and not the user I
> created the token for. As I mentioned before, I also look for a way so
> that when call an API to the get the cursor properties
> (SystemParametersInfo), the return value correspond to the user I
> supplied.
>
> Regards,
> RaminDeja.
>
> "booster" <saltynuts2002@msn.com> wrote in message
news:<Ofg8128yCHA.2368@TK2MSFTNGP12>...
> > ImpersonateLoggedOnUser()
> >
> > "RaminDeja" <ramindeja@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
> > news:6512f1b1.0302031047.79092386@posting.google.com...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Our tool needs to extract desktop and network settings of a user by
> > > calling SDK APIs (ex. SystemParametersInfo) and loading user's
> > > registry entries. We do not have the user passwords but their
> > > usernames.
> > >
> > > This is what I've tried so far with little success:
> > >
> > > 1. The service creates a token based on the user's SID (ZwCreateToken)
> > > 2. Loads the user's profile
> > > 3. Loads the user's Registry hive (NTUSER.DAT)
> > >
> > > But the the APIs always return the information related to the Local
> > > System!
> > >
> > > I could call CreateProcessAsUser(), but I rather not create another
> > > process. Besides, my tests showed that even a new process still needs
> > > steps 2. and 3. with the APIs always returning Local System related
> > > information.
> > >
> > > Any help will be greatly appreciated, I've tried almost all the
> > > newsgroups and couldn't find a proper solution.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > RaminDeja.

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