.Net 2.0 ServiceController.GetServices()
- by Miles
I've got a website that has windows authentication enable on it. From a page in the website, the users have the ability to start a service that does some stuff with the database.
It works fine for me to start the service because I'm a local admin on the server. But I just had a user test it and they can't get the service started.
My question is:
Does anyone know of a way to get a list of services on a specified computer by name using a different windows account than the one they are currently logged in with?
I really don't want to add all the users that need to start the service into a windows group and set them all to a local admin on my IIS server.....
Here's some of the code I've got:
public static ServiceControllerStatus FindService()
{
ServiceControllerStatus status = ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped;
try
{
string machineName = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ServiceMachineName"];
ServiceController[] services = ServiceController.GetServices(machineName);
string serviceName = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ServiceName"].ToLower();
foreach (ServiceController service in services)
{
if (service.ServiceName.ToLower() == serviceName)
{
status = service.Status;
break;
}
}
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
status = ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped;
SaveError(ex, "Utilities - FindService()");
}
return status;
}
My exception comes from the second line in the try block. Here's the error:
System.InvalidOperationException:
Cannot open Service Control Manager on
computer 'server.domain.com'. This
operation might require other
privileges. ---
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception:
Access is denied --- End of inner
exception stack trace --- at
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.GetDataBaseHandleWithAccess(String
machineName, Int32
serviceControlManaqerAccess) at
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.GetServicesOfType(String
machineName, Int32 serviceType) at
TelemarketingWebSite.Utilities.StartService()
Thanks for the help/info
