Kill Process with User Credentials

[Spectre_Dave]

I have a need to Kill a process with user credentials.  I have a VI - using .net that performs this when the user has admin credentials.  However I need to be able to kill a process from lower user credentials. There should be a way to change the security settings (programmatically) for that process.  I already create a process with a local admin account but that still does not work.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Brad_K · Accepted solution]

Hi Spectre Dave,

It sounds like you want to impersonate a user account. It's possible to do this in .NET. Here's a Stack Overflow Q&A about it: Impersonation in .NET

Since impersonation only applies to the current thread, doing this correctly from G code will require ensuring that your entire VI runs in a single OS thread.

Another approach might be to launch a child process as a different user via the "runas" command. This might be easier to get right, and might be closer to what you've already tried.

Brad

[Spectre_Dave]

Thank you

I am NOT a .net programmer but I can figure it out if I know where to look - now I know where to look.