I'm launching a PowerShell from C#. However I want to launch PowerShell and execute following commands using a different user than the logged on user. So I do this:
- Impersonate in C#
- Create PowerShell
- Execute commands in PowerShell
The user impersonation works fine in C#, I validated that. Now in order to validate in what user context is the PowerShell running, I try executing these commands which ideally should give me the impersonated user however they give different results:
- [System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent().Name - returns impersonated user, indicating PowerShell is running under impersonated user.
- whoami - gives me the logged in user, indicating the PowerShell is NOT running in impersonated user context
There has been plenty of questions/articles on why it doesn't work in ASP.Net and the answers however I couldn't find anything for
C# Windows application. I read a lot about "Pipeline Execution Thread" always using the Process's identity but there was nothing on how to force it to use thread's identity (in C# Windows application).
Other things that I have already tried:
- Setting the runspace's ThreadOptions to use current (C#) thread as I'm definite it is running under impersonated user.
- Creating a PSInvocationSettings, set FlowImpersonationPolicy to true and passing it on to Powershell.Invoke.
Any guidance or help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Vipin
