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The Windows operating system also supports the ability to impersonate another user. Impersonation is useful in a distributed environment when servers must pass client requests to other servers or to the operating system. This way, the operating system can perform the request as if the original client had made it. You don’t have to maintain a set of user accounts and passwords on the network server, nor do you have to ask the user to log on again in order to access the network resource.
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