unable to Runas /profile /user:MyComputer\ASPNET cmd

[toptomato]

thanks in advance to every one
I am trying to run a command in command prompt under ASPNET account. But it prompts me for a password. What should i do. Help.

 

[Veep]

Why?

 

[toptomato]

well i am trying to encrypt the connection string in the webconfig using Using RSA with a User-level Key Container.

Because the application must access the data using the same identity that you used to encrypt the data, you often need to run the encryption command using your application's service account identity. To do so, you can start a command Window by using the runas command as shown below specifying an appropriate domain and user name.

Runas /profile /user:domain\user cmd

When you run Aspnet_regiis from the resulting command window, it uses the specified identity to perform the encryption. This allows the application that uses the same identity to decrypt the data at run time.

 

[ca8msm]

Why don't you just use Impersonation to take the identity of the user with the relevant priviliges?

Also, version 2.0 of the framework encrypts connection strings for you so you don't have to encrypt them yourself.


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[toptomato]

dear ca8msm, can you please elaborate on as to how asp.net 2.0 encrypts webconfigs on its own.

 

[ca8msm]

Sorry, that was actually quite misleading. What I meant was that there is a built in method to retrieve encrypted connection strings if you have encrypted the string first e.g.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dtkwfdky.aspx

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