Impersonator C#

I think everybody was already at this point... A program should handle file transfers or modifications but the access to the target path is not given to everybody.
How to handle this situation? :-(

One answer could be, to use one common account (inside the program) to do these actions.

I have tried to solve this situation like following:


1) Create a new class "Impersonator"

using System;
using System.Security.Principal;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.ComponentModel;

namespace Test.Impersonator
{
    public class Impersonator : IDisposable
    {
        public Impersonator(string userName, string domainName, string password)
        {
            ImpersonateValidUser(userName, domainName, password);
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            UndoImpersonation();
        }

        [DllImport("advapi32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
        private static extern int LogonUser(string lpszUserName, string lpszDomain, string lpszPassword, int dwLogonType, int dwLogonProvider, ref IntPtr phToken);

        [DllImport("advapi32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
        private static extern int DuplicateToken(IntPtr hToken, int impersonationLevel, ref IntPtr hNewToken);

        [DllImport("advapi32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
        private static extern bool RevertToSelf();

        [DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
        private static extern bool CloseHandle(IntPtr handle);

        private const int LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE = 2;
        private const int LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT = 0;

        private void ImpersonateValidUser(string userName, string domain, string password)
        {
            WindowsIdentity tempWindowsIdentity = null;
            IntPtr token = IntPtr.Zero;
            IntPtr tokenDuplicate = IntPtr.Zero;

            try
            {
                if (RevertToSelf())
                {
                    if (LogonUser(userName, domain, password, LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE, LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT, ref token) != 0)
                    {
                        if (DuplicateToken(token, 2, ref tokenDuplicate) != 0)
                        {
                            tempWindowsIdentity = new WindowsIdentity(tokenDuplicate);
                            impersonationContext = tempWindowsIdentity.Impersonate();
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            throw new Win32Exception(Marshal.GetLastWin32Error());
                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        throw new Win32Exception(Marshal.GetLastWin32Error());
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    throw new Win32Exception(Marshal.GetLastWin32Error());
                }
            }
            finally
            {
                if (token != IntPtr.Zero)
                {
                    CloseHandle(token);
                }
                if (tokenDuplicate != IntPtr.Zero)
                {
                    CloseHandle(tokenDuplicate);
                }
            }
        }

        private void UndoImpersonation()
        {
            if (impersonationContext != null)
            {
                impersonationContext.Undo();
            }
        }

        private WindowsImpersonationContext impersonationContext = null;
    }
}


2) Use the Impersonator class in you main program around the function which should run under a different user.

using...
using Test.Impersonator;
namespace Test
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void StartDataTransfer()
        {
              //Do something as User1
            using (new Impersonator("UserName", "Domain", "Password"))
            {
                     //Do something as User2
            }
        }
    }
}
  


Feel free to ask/feedback :-)

Kind regards,
FreaksOfDeveloper

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