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A method of the SPSecurity class, RunWithElevatedPrivileges executes the specified method with Full Control rights even if the user does not otherwise have Full Control.

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RunWithElevatedPrivileges - Usage recommendations

If you are only trying to update SharePoint objects, you should impersonate the System Account, not RWEP.
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SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges that elevates outside of the current web application co...

If you are reading, perhaps Search can help. Or web services or RSS, but that would be bad in a web request context. I don't know your requirements, but do you really need to do this? If so, do you n …
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Returning a SPListItem in conjunction with RunWithElevatedPrivileges

Do not use RWEP. You do not need it. Hidden lists do not require special coding to access. If the current user has permissions to the list, then just access the hidden list as you would any other li …
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SPWeb.GetUserToken(x) vs SPWeb.Users[x].UserToken

Do you really need to impersonate a different user? Or just temporarily need permission to write to a resource? These scenarios are covered here: http://www.schaeflein.net/impersonation-and-elevation …
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Event Receiver which tries to create a Prefix will throw Security Exception

Most likely, the Application Pool Identity for the content web application is not the same as the App Pool Identity for the Central Administration web application. I would suggest moving the list to …
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runwithelevatedprivileges for sandbox

Instead of an event receiver, can you utilize the Content Organizer feature instead? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee558288%28v=office.14%29.aspx Your users can be given write access …
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