Author: Deeghan | Posted on: 4/27/2010 4:45:53 PM | Views : 1064

Hello, 
I have a question about impersonation in ASP.NET applications and Windows Authentication with a remote account.  
I had developed an ASP.NET application using a database with SQL Authentication. Recently, the system administrator has switched the database's authentication scheme over to Windows Authentication only. 
I researched a bit and found that I could still access the database using impersonation. I added the following section to my web config: 
<authentication mode="Windows"/>
     <identity impersonate="true" userName="xyz" password="***"  
Then, I compiled and attempted to debug the application. I was informed that the username and password were bad.  
This lead to me spending an hour trying to figure out what was wrong. I ended up figuring out that it was looking for a local account named [xyz] ...

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