Problem with retrieveing windows username

[Iain Munro]

Hi,

I'm atttempting to retrieve the Windows username from an
ASP page using the WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent() method. The object returns
but the username contained is 'NT AUTHORITY' as opposed to the correct
windows username.

Any ideas?

Iain

[Paul Clement]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:02:19 -0000, "Iain Munro" <imunro@genre.com> wrote:

¤ Hi,
¤
¤ I'm atttempting to retrieve the Windows username from an
¤ ASP page using the WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent() method. The object returns
¤ but the username contained is 'NT AUTHORITY' as opposed to the correct
¤ windows username.
¤

I believe it is an impersonation issue that ASP does automatically but ASP.NET does not (by default)
when requested. See if the following helps/makes sense:

The Web server impersonates a client in one of two ways. Original ASP automatically impersonated the
client every time a request was made. ASP.NET does not do this by default, but you can turn it on in
the web.config file by setting the impersonation attribute to True. Alternatively, you can
impersonate the client programmatically by calling the function
System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Impersonate.

Web.config settings for automatic impersonation.

<identity>
<impersonation enable="true" />
</identity>


Paul ~~~ pclement@ameritech.net
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)