Creating AppPool with username/password over Microsoft.Web.Administration

Question

I'm using the following code to create an App Pool:

var appPool = serverManager.ApplicationPools.Add(Name);
appPool.ProcessModel.IdentityType = ProcessModelIdentityType.SpecificUser;
appPool.ProcessModel.UserName = UserName;
appPool.ProcessModel.Password = Password;
serverManager.CommitChanges();

But somehow something goes wrong with the password and I don't know what. When I look into applicationHost.config the xml generated looks like this:

<processModel 
  identityType="SpecificUser" 
  userName="domain1\user1" 
  password="[enc:IISWASOnlyAesProvider:6RqsTbCqVXXnr37jLOrOjg==:enc]" />

If I add the same user (domain1\user1) manually over the IIS Manager the xml looks like that:

<processModel 
  identityType="SpecificUser" 
  userName="domain1\user1"
  password="[enc:IISWASOnlyAesProvider:OCkfPehXB3p8ahXXtaoW3vLTpFY/EbW5IFo39h5iVE2azpJXXvkArbeeuwI5bvBG:enc]" />

It looks like the password gets encrypted in a different way when created via code, but I didn't find anything topic regarding that in the web.

What I'm doing wrong or what I need to do to make the code work?

Answer 1

i've tried to reproduce it and it worked all the time. Sorry for the following question, but it happended a couple of times to myself:

Are you absolutely sure you've specified the right password?

Answer 2

you can create app pool with username and password like this

using (ServerManager serverManager = new ServerManager())
           {
              
                   ApplicationPool newPool = serverManager.ApplicationPools.Add("Poolnam1");
                   newPool.ManagedRuntimeVersion = "v4.0";
                   newPool.ProcessModel.IdentityType = ProcessModelIdentityType.SpecificUser;
                   newPool.ProcessModel.UserName = accountUserName;
                   newPool.ProcessModel.Password = accountPassword;
                   serverManager.CommitChanges();

           
           }