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Problem with Impersonate on a web service

I have a working web service. When data is received I would like to run an external program against this data. I have setup impersonation to use a known-working username and password, but the program does not run.

Thanks for any ideas.

If impersonateValidUser("myuser", "WEST", "mypassword") Then
    '
    Dim proc As New Process
    proc.StartInfo.Password = New System.Security.SecureString()
    For Each c As Char In "mypassword"
        proc.StartInfo.Password.AppendChar(c)
    Next
    proc.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False
    proc.StartInfo.Arguments = arg1 & " " & arg2
    proc.StartInfo.FileName = "C:\Program Files\DoMerge\DoMerge.exe"
 
    proc.Start()
 
    undoImpersonation()
 
End If

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jinal

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jinal

Also try without giving password, username and domain if your imperosnate user has rights to create process.

Tom Sage

ASKER

Hi jinal,

Yes, I put a call to an email program in the IF statement, so I know I am using valid credentials.

Thanks

Tom Sage

ASKER

jinal,

I ran the process explorer program, and I can see that the program did start, but it did not run to completion. It seems hung for some reason.

Thanks

jinal

is it required any input for process?

Tom Sage

ASKER

Thank you for the help.