Elevated Permissions with SPContext

Old post I moved over.

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I have created a provisioning wizard to control where and how sites are created. I do this through a web part that is added to the STS#1 definition. To prevent users from accessing the site settings menu everyone is setup at the top level as a "Reader". So obviously if i want to create a site, within the users context, i need to elevate their permission. There is plenty of code out there that demostrates the SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges, however, if you are to use the SPContext while inside a call to RunWithElevatedPrivileges it does not elevate the current context permission. You will have to open a new site. Examples below:

// Doesn't Work
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate {
    SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web {

    // provision site & do other jazz
    web.Webs.Add(...);
});

// Better
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate {
    using (SPSite site = new SPSite(SPContext.Current.Web.Url)) {
        using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb()) {
            // provision site & do other jazz
            web.Webs.Add(...);
        }
    }
});

Odd but works for me.