Windows Authentication

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Hi How do you retrieve username in case of Windows Authentication ?

Senthilkumar · Answer

Hi Arun Choudhry, You can get the current identity of the user under which the current thread is running (not necessarily the logged in user) using WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent() . Alternatively you can get the logged in user name via the Environment.UserName property. It is not guaranteed to be the user running the current process however. In a web application, you need to invoke the following code to get the user identity of the active user on the current request: System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity This is a little different from the case when you are not developing web applications, because under default settings the current windows user thats running a web application on the server is the IIS user account and not the actual user account associated with a particular request. string username = User.Identity.Name.ToString(); Be sure to add the Security reference: using System.Web.Security;

Satyapriya Nayak · Answer

Hi Arun, Use System.Environment.UserName Thanks

Windows Authentication

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