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Craig
Craig

Reputation: 1225

How can I retrieve Logged In user in an ASP.NET web application?

I am using windows authentication in a ASP.Net Web Application and in the code-behind attempting to retrieve the logged in user name. I am using this routine WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name but instead of getting the name of the user, I am getting - NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE. What do I need to change or are my users logging in a different way than expected?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1604

Answers (2)

Anders Marzi Tornblad
Anders Marzi Tornblad

Reputation: 19305

Add the following to your web.config:

<system.web>
    <identity impersonate="true"/>
</system.web>

This will make your web app impersonate the currently logged in user. That does have some implications. An important one is that the logged in user must have the proper rights to files, folders, databases and so on.

If you don't want that, you can use User.Identity instead of WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().

Upvotes: 1

James Shuttler
James Shuttler

Reputation: 1374

Use this.Context.User.Identity.Name, which will get the identity for the current HTTPContext object: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httpcontext.user.aspx

Upvotes: 3

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