Passing user credentials to ASMX web service via Service Connector

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Permalink Reply by CM on February 27, 2009 at 12:17pm

Hi Frosty,

Sounds like you're asking for impersonation or credentials propagation. This is not available out of the box currently but will be available end of March. However, for such scenarios to reliably work your kerberos must be working and configured across your domain. This is true regardless of windows app and historically has caused numerous headaches for people wanting to do things such as split up the SSRS tier and have credentials flow correctly.

If you're looking for an immediate solution or something simpler than true impersonation/delegation across multiple hops then feel free to email me the scenario and perhaps I can try to come up with something for you.

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Permalink Reply by Frosty on February 27, 2009 at 12:28pm

Credential propagation would be spot on... if I need to impersonate (every end user appears to be John Doe), then setting Client Credentials in the Service Connector tab appears to be the ticket.

So to state another way: If my web service is secured via windows authentication, then the only 'easy' way to access the web service through the bus is to set static Client Credentials in the Service Connector tab?

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Permalink Reply by CM on February 27, 2009 at 12:34pm

Right now yes.

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