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What permissions do I need to give a User for them to be able to write to the Windows EventLog? I have an ASP.NET application that needs to impersonate a user and that impersonated user must be able to write the event log

James Alexander
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  • Write or create? Writing to the log with a unique source requires write access to registry keys (the source has an existence in the registry). – John Saunders Jun 22 '09 at 19:21
  • Related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/286060/what-do-i-need-to-change-to-alllow-my-iis7-asp-net-3-5-application-to-create-an – Chris S Oct 21 '11 at 13:13

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To create an Event Log source you need to be an administrator, otherwise you should be able to write to it without elevated privileges.

Maybe take a look at this article.

Brandon
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The MSDN docs on Event Logging (Win32) do not mention any required privileges.

Regardless, I'm not sure I understand why you need to write to the log using the impersonation token. You can still impersonate, but also write to the log with a different (admin) account, if that's necessary.

Assaf Lavie
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