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What is impersonate user?
User impersonation allows you to temporarily sign in as a different user in your network. Users with full impersonation permissions can impersonate all other users in their network and take any action, regardless of the impersonating user’s own permission level. To help another user troubleshoot an issue.
The purpose of the Impersonation Step is to run any actions inside this step as the user who authored the workflow.
Is it a crime to impersonate someone?
The law made it a crime to steal someone’s name, voice, photo or other information to create a false identity on social media. Impersonation crimes are not always financial, but they are usually considered immoral and therefore illegal.
What is impersonation level?
The varying degrees of impersonation are called impersonation levels, and they indicate how much authority is given to the server when it is impersonating the client. The server can impersonate the client’s security context while acting on behalf of the client. The server can access local resources as the client.
Impersonation, a feature that was added in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, enables you to perform actions on behalf of another user.
When to use impersonation in a timer operation?
Impersonation is useful in scenarios such as timer operations that need to update something asynchronously on behalf of a user long after the user has stopped using the Web site (that is, when their workflow is completed). For information about suspending impersonation, see Avoiding Suspending Impersonation of the Calling User.
Do you need to reinstantiate spsite object after impersonation?
Although impersonation provides a powerful technique for managing security, it should be used with care to ensure that unwanted activity is not performed by users who should not have the ability to impersonate. To continue working with objects on a site after performing an impersonation action in code, you must reinstantiate the SPSite object.
Note: System Account (SHAREPOINT\\system) is the application pool user of SharePoint. If you are using Developer Installations on client Operating Systems (Windows 7 / Vista) the account name will be different. Now let us see how to use the above methods. This is the most commonly used method to impersonate.