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title: "How can you enable impersonation in the web.config file?"  
description: "How can you enable impersonation in the web.config file?"  
author: "Sumit Kesarwani"  
published: 2014-09-01  
updated: 2020-09-23  
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# How can you enable impersonation in the web.config file?

To enable impersonation in the web.confing file, you need to include the <identity> element in the web.config file and set the impersonate attribute to true as shown in the following code snippet:

<identity impersonate = "true" />

## Answers

### Answer by Sumit Kesarwani

To enable impersonation in the web.confing file, you need to include the <identity> element in the web.config file and set the impersonate attribute to true as shown in the following code snippet:

<identity impersonate = "true" />


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