IIS Impersonate not taking place till after Application_Start event

[MattC]

Hi,

In IIS I have anonymous access set to true and I have a user specifed for
IIS to use (MyAppUser). This user has access to my database.

I retrieve configuration data for my application when the app starts, I
placed my code in the Application_Start event method.

My connection string is (value="server=localhost; database=MyDB;
Trusted_Connection=true" ) and <identity impersonate="true" /> so IIS will
use MyAppUser as the account to try and conenct to the DB as. This works
fine if my code is placed in a Page but when I placed it in
Application_Start it trys to log on as ASPNET user.

Is this becasue the impersonation only takes effect once the Application has
started??

Some advice would be handy about now

Thanks in advance

MattC

 

[Raterus]

I can't say I really know any more about this than you do, but it would seem to me that this would be the default behavior for application level events. The application has to be started before the user can start his stuff, not the other way around.

What you could try is impersonating via code, using this,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306158
don't think the first option will work, but you certainly should be able to use the second method, but you'll have to supply the username/password.

Or you can move this from the application_start to session_start?

--Michael