Storing network credentials

[David Thielen]

Hi;

I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no because I see some security
problems if it's yes. But I figure it can't hurt to ask.

We want to be able to schedule a report to run at a certain time and run
under the crednetials of the user that requested it. In this way we can
connect to Sql Server using SSPI and do not need to store a username &
password.

Is there a way to store a client user's Windows Identity so we can later
impersonate that user?

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[Luke Zhang [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

A Windows identity is initialized by a user token, it is retrieved through
a call to unmanaged code, such as a call to the Win32 API LogonUser
function that require user's account and password. So a Windows identity
cannot be saved anyway,

Sincerely,

Luke Zhang

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