Getting username

[Vik]

An ASP.NET page uses Windows authentication method for the user log in. How
can get the username by code in this page?

Thanks.

[Nicole Calinoiu]

There are three identities that may be of interest:
HttpContext.Current.User, WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(), and
Thread.CurrentPrincipal. Depending on the exact details of your
authentication and impersonation scheme, one or more of these may contain
the identity you want. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...SecNetAP05.asp for
details.

HTH,
Nicole
"Vik" <viktorum@==hotmail.com==> wrote in message
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An ASP.NET page uses Windows authentication method for the user log in.
How
can get the username by code in this page?

Thanks.

[Raterus]

"HttpContext.Current.User" WILL contain the identity you want if you are using windows authentication.

"Nicole Calinoiu" <ni*****@somewhere.net> wrote in message news:%2****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

There are three identities that may be of interest:
HttpContext.Current.User, WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(), and
Thread.CurrentPrincipal. Depending on the exact details of your
authentication and impersonation scheme, one or more of these may contain
the identity you want. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...SecNetAP05.asp for
details.

HTH,
Nicole


"Vik" <viktorum@==hotmail.com==> wrote in message
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An ASP.NET page uses Windows authentication method for the user log in.
How
can get the username by code in this page?

Thanks.

[Dale]

The easy version of the other two replies is just use something like this:

userName = User.Identity.Name;

--
Dale Preston
MCAD C#
MCSE, MCDBA
"Vik" wrote:

An ASP.NET page uses Windows authentication method for the user log in. How
can get the username by code in this page?

Thanks.

[Nicole Calinoiu]

That depends on what you mean by "using Windows authentication". Having an
<authentication mode="Windows" /> element in your web.config file is not, in
and of itself, sufficient to make an authenticated user identity end up in
HttpContext.Current.User. See, for example, the IIS anonymous
authentication of the P&P document at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...SecNetAP05.asp.

Also, if someone needs to ask the question, they generally are unaware that
multiple user identities may be implicated. Are you sure OP merely wants
the user name provided? What if the real intent is to determine why trusted
connections to SQL Server are failing when it is supposed that the
credentials being passed are those of the authenticated user? The
HttpContext user wouldn't help one bit with this...
"Raterus" <ra*****@spam.org> wrote in message
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"HttpContext.Current.User" WILL contain the identity you want if you are
using windows authentication.

"Nicole Calinoiu" <ni*****@somewhere.net> wrote in message
news:%2****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

There are three identities that may be of interest:
HttpContext.Current.User, WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(), and
Thread.CurrentPrincipal. Depending on the exact details of your
authentication and impersonation scheme, one or more of these may contain
the identity you want. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...SecNetAP05.asp for
details.

HTH,
Nicole
"Vik" <viktorum@==hotmail.com==> wrote in message
news:OT**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

An ASP.NET page uses Windows authentication method for the user log in.
How
can get the username by code in this page?

Thanks.