Certificate Installation Access Denied Error

Question

I am trying to add a certificate inside localMachine Root. Below is the code for what I tried but this is not allowing me to add into Local Machine, while coming to add it say's access denied. How to allow to install inside Local Machine?

X509Certificate2 cert = new X509Certificate2(@"D:\MyCertificate.pfx", "Temp@1234",
                X509KeyStorageFlags.MachineKeySet | X509KeyStorageFlags.PersistKeySet);
// save certificate and private key
X509Store storeMy = new X509Store(StoreName.Root, StoreLocation.LocalMachine);
storeMy.Open(OpenFlags.ReadWrite);
storeMy.Add(cert);

Answer 1

Try to Run application as Admin.

If it works successfully as an admin that means your user doesn't have access to install the certificate.

Please read through this

You can try to install the certificate under current user store rather than local machine.

In code use:

StoreLocation.CurrentUser

instead of

StoreLocation.LocalMachine