Getting logged in user from IIS7.5

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I have enabled windows authentication and disabled rest of the authentications on my IIS 7.5. In my web application web.config I have set

<authentication mode="Windows">

When I try to get logged in user as WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name; it's giving defaultappool as the user rather than the logged in windows user. This used to work correctly with IIS5.1 but not with IIS7.5. Is there anything else I should modify?

Check this article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff649264.aspx. I'm not aware that something has changed for IIS 7.5 but take into account that the article is pretty old. — Claudio Redi, Sep 22 '12 at 00:13

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 21 '12 at 22:37

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You can get the user identity from the HttpContext.User Property.

answered Sep 21 '12 at 22:37

JamieSee

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HttpContext.User.Identity.Name.ToString() worked for me. – Joshua Aug 08 '17 at 16:12

Getting logged in user from IIS7.5

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