Page.User.Identity.Name

[luna]

Where does this function get the name from ?
reason i ask is, a user wanted their name changing on the domain,
i fixe everything else (email,login etc etc) but this function still
displays the old name

cheers

mark

 

[Guest]

The .net uses the identity of the current login user. But It depends on the
kind of authentication you use. If you are using Windows based authentication
then it will use NT Domain user id, But in some cases your application is
also running under admin id, in this case you impersonate admin id to run
application. you may check ur web.config for it.

 

[luna]

cheers,

weird, seems to be windows auth

<authentication mode="Windows" />
<identity impersonate="true" />


still shows the wrong name, might just be the active directory


mark

 

[Brock Allen]

"Windows" means use the username IIS determines, so you must also configure
IIS. Probabaly what you need to do in IIS is disallow anonymous access.

The impersonate setting is unrelated to determining User.Identity.Name. It's
used for setting a thread token on the executing thread based upon IIS' user.
Chances are that you don't need or want that if you simply want to know who
the user is.

-Brock
http://staff.develop.com/ballen

 

[luna]

anon access is disabled, integrated windows authenticion only
havent been back to check if its ok as the woman does my head in!