Disable search security trimmer?

Question

I'm currently working with a client, one of the requirements is that users have complete access to the search results, regardless user permissions, including anonymous users, Is there a way to disable security trimming?, I have tried running the core results web part with elevated privileges but it doesn’t seem to work for anonymous users.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I finally found how to run the core results webpart with elevated privileges, here is the code in case someone else needs it:

    protected override XPathNavigator GetXPathNavigator(string viewPath)
    {
        XmlDocument CustomXml = null;
        string UserQuery = "";
        QueryManager QM = SharedQueryManager.GetInstance(Page, QueryNumber).QueryManager;
        UserQuery = QM.UserQuery;
        QueryManager SourceManager = SharedQueryManager.GetInstance(Page, QueryNumber).QueryManager;   
        SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
        {
            SearchQueryAndSiteSettingsServiceProxy settingsProxy = SPFarm.Local.ServiceProxies.GetValue<SearchQueryAndSiteSettingsServiceProxy>();
            SearchServiceApplicationProxy searchProxy = settingsProxy.ApplicationProxies.GetValue<SearchServiceApplicationProxy>("Search Service Application");
            QueryManager queryManager = new QueryManager();
            LocationList LocalList = new LocationList();
            Location localSearchLocation = new Location("LocalSearchIndex", searchProxy);
            LocalList.Add(localSearchLocation);
            queryManager.UserQuery = UserQuery;
            queryManager.Add(LocalList);
            queryManager.IsTriggered(LocalList);
            CustomXml = queryManager.GetResults(LocalList);
        });
        XPathNavigator xPathNavigator = CustomXml.CreateNavigator(); 
        return xPathNavigator;
    }

Edit: Although this works to get all the search results, the refinement panel, and paging web part stopped working, I’m currently looking for a way to fix this.

Answer 2

You could try calling the Search web service from elevated code. Just a thought, never tried it before. FWIW this seems like a really odd requirement :)