Is it possible to retrieve a user's windows login via asp.net?

Thanks

Renee C. Walker

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Renee C. Walker

The Q? is not clear.You would like to know whether the authentication can be done using windows login for an ASP.Net page?

Regards
Chanti

Is there a way for me to capture the user's windows login via asp?

Renee C. Walker

Is there a way for me to capture the user's windows login via asp?


Renee C. Walker

If you use Windows authentication in an ASP.Net application, then you would be able to see their username.

I think this will do it:
HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name

Peter
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Can you tell me where to put this code? I tried putting it in web.config and it's not working.

Thanks

Renee C. Walker

You need to put that code wherever you want to retrieve the login. I assume somewhere in your application you want to get that login username, so you have something like this...

sUserName = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name



Peter
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Okay, that's what I did. Let me check my code again.

Thanks for your help.

Renee C. Walker

Use a class like the following:

using System;
using System.Security.Principal;
using System.Diagnostics;


namespace Credentials
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Summary description for USerInfo.
    /// </summary>
    public class cUserInfo
    {

        private WindowsPrincipal wpMain;


        public cUserInfo()
        {
            //
            // TODO: Add constructor logic here
            //

            // Put user code to initialize the page here
            wpMain = new WindowsPrincipal(WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent());

            this._MachineName = System.Environment.MachineName;

        }


        public String UserName()
        {
            return wpMain.Identity.Name;
        }


        public bool IsUserInRole(String RoleName)
        {

            //We need to convert the string into an ID for the IsInRole call
            //WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator

            return wpMain.IsInRole(this._MachineName + @"\" + RoleName);


        }

        public String AuthenticationType()
        {
                return wpMain.Identity.AuthenticationType;

        }

        private String _MachineName;

        public string MachineName
        {
            get { return this._MachineName; }
        }




    }
}

Also, does anyone know hoe to set IIS to anonymous access then have an ASPX form grab a user name and login, then log the user into Windows?

Thanks,
Damon Carr

rwalker, Maybe you are looking for System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("usernam e") ?
That worked for me

Just put debug mode on, and look at
System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariables() and see the full list.. There are like 39 of them :)

Sameer

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