Username in Web-App

[Guest]

How would I get the current username using C# in an .ASPX web-app? I tried
System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name and this returns
'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM' I also tried System.Environment.UserName which just
returns 'SYSTEM'

What am I missing, or what should I do to get this to work?

Thanks
Andy

 

[Nicole Calinoiu]

That depends on which user name you're interested in. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetsec/html/SecNetAP05.asp for
descriptions and expected values for the three user identifiers that are
generally of interest in ASP.NET applications.

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

You should disable the anonymous access from IIS config applet and make
sure that the Integrated windows auth is checked

then set this in the web.config file

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

with that you can access the user from your code using

WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name


Cheers,

 

[Guest]

Nicole:

Thank you very much. This helped a lot. I was missing the impersonate
value in my web.config file.