Listing the contents of a network directory - user permissions

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Ian

All,

I need to list within a web page the contents of a network directory,
this needs to be based on the user permissions of the user viewing the
web page.

For example,

User A can see the following directories :

dirA
dirB
dirC

User B has only rights to the following directories :

dirA
dirB

Directory 'dirC' will remain hidden from to User B.

The displaying of files within a network directory is easy enough, it's
the displaying of files based on user permissions that's the issue.

Any comments/suggestions welcome!

TIA
Iain
 
All,

I need to list within a web page the contents of a network directory,
this needs to be based on the user permissions of the user viewing the
web page.

For example,

User A can see the following directories :

dirA
dirB
dirC

User B has only rights to the following directories :

dirA
dirB

Directory 'dirC' will remain hidden from to User B.

The displaying of files within a network directory is easy enough, it's
the displaying of files based on user permissions that's the issue.

Any comments/suggestions welcome!

TIA
Iain
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You wold need to impersonate current user to run with the permissions
of the current user.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa292118.aspx
 
Alexey said:
You wold need to impersonate current user to run with the permissions
of the current user.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa292118.aspx
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Yes, I saw the ASP.NET impersonation article(s), only thing that is
puzzling me is can you dynamically changes the values of :

<identity impersonate="true"
userName="domain\user" <----------- this value
password="password" /> <----------- this value

Can you pass the current user into the web.config identity impersonate
section?
 
Yes, I saw the ASP.NET impersonation article(s), only thing that is
puzzling me is can you dynamically changes the values of :

<identity impersonate="true"
           userName="domain\user"      <----------- this value
           password="password" />      <----------- this value

Can you pass the current user into the web.config identity impersonate
section?
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You should use userName and password attributes only when you need to
impersonate the token with a specific identity. In order to get the
token impersonated by the current user you should use <identity
impersonate="true" /> and <authentication mode="Windows" />. See the
matrix that illustrate the resultant identity
based on settings. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302377.aspx

Hope this helps
 
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