Capture the actual user during impersonation

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raghu_g
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Capture the actual user during impersonation

Post by raghu_g »

Hi!

I'm on Powershell Studio 2019 and I'm trying to figure out how to capture the actual username when they run an executable which is impersonating (or running as) another user. Does anyone have any tips on how I could capture this information inside the actual script? I see that there are two consoles launching when the script is executed. I can guess the first is just a "run as" wrapper launching my actual executable. Maybe the first console could capture the actual environment variable of the username and pass it to second console?

To clarify; the situation is that User A runs an EXE which I have configured to execute by impersonating user B. In my code, $([Environment]::UserName) returns the username of user B. I was wondering what I could to capture username of User A within my code.

Update : I was able to solve this but it won't let me post my snippet. It somehow thinks I am posting an external link.
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