I've got a website that has windows authentication enable on it. From a page in the website, the users have the ability to start a service that does some stuff with the database.

It works fine for me to start the service because I'm a local admin on the server. But I just had a user test it and they can't get the service started.

My question is:

Does anyone know of a way to get a list of services on a specified computer by name using a different windows account than the one they are currently logged in with?

I really don't want to add all the users that need to start the service into a windows group and set them all to a local admin on my IIS server.....

Here's some of the code I've got:

public static ServiceControllerStatus FindService()
        {
            ServiceControllerStatus status = ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped;

            try
            {
                string machineName = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ServiceMachineName"];
                ServiceController[] services = ServiceController.GetServices(machineName);
                string serviceName = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ServiceName"].ToLower();

                foreach (ServiceController service in services)
                {
                    if (service.ServiceName.ToLower() == serviceName)
                    {
                        status = service.Status;
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
                status = ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped;
                SaveError(ex, "Utilities - FindService()");
            }

            return status;
        }

My exception comes from the second line in the try block. Here's the error:

System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot open Service Control Manager on computer 'server.domain.com'. This operation might require other privileges. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Access is denied --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.GetDataBaseHandleWithAccess(String machineName, Int32 serviceControlManaqerAccess) at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.GetServicesOfType(String machineName, Int32 serviceType) at TelemarketingWebSite.Utilities.StartService()

Thanks for the help/info