Docs? Some Classes Require Administrator Role...

[clintonG]

Using the process class requires the administrator role. Thus, if I may
presume, there are other classes that require role-based dependencies.

Does anybody know of documentation listing role-dependent classes?

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[Kevin Spencer]

Don't know if there is any specific documentation about this, but it
shouldn't be hard to figure out. For example, to manage processes, one must
be an administrator, naturally. To read or write from Active Directory
requires a role having the administrative permissions necessary to do so. To
open a file on a machine elsewhere on the network, the app must be or
impersonate a user account with the necessary permissions on that machine.
To read from or write to the System Registry, the app must be or impersonate
an account with that permission. Etc.

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[Scott Allen]

It's not that classes require a role, per se.

For example, I can start XCOPY using the Process class from an ASPX
page under the ASPNET account, and I can copy a file from one temp
directory to another with xcopy when the directory permissions are
wide open. If I try to copy a file into the \Documents and
Settings\Administrator, then there is a permissions issue. Likewise if
I try to run IISRESET, I'll get an access denied message, but in
neither failure will I get an exception - just an error message in the
output of the process because of what it tried to do.

 

[clintonG]

The documentation -- MSDN Library -- clearly states classes that
are also supported by the Compact Framework. The same should
be true when roles impose dependencies on usage.

I was hoping to learn somebody had taken it upon themselves to
document this fact as it is not documented within the official
documentation.

I'll be submitting this suggestion to MSDN...

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[clintonG]

See me response above...


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