How to retrieve current logged on user id from IIS

Question

I need to retrieve the current logged on User ID in the IIS then I will pass that ID to a function for authentication purpose.

public ActionResult Login(myLoginModel model)
{
            System.Security.Principal.IPrincipal user;
            user = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User;
            String name = user.Identity.Name.ToString();

AuthenticateUser(name)
}

I always got a null value for "name". My web.config file is:

  <authentication mode="Windows"/>
    <identity impersonate="true"/>

and I have disabled Anonymous Authentication and enabled Windows Authentication on the IIS Manager. Can you help me fix this problem?

possible duplicate of [Windows Authentication - Getting current user name](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8968254/windows-authentication-getting-current-user-name) -- also, FWIW, by the time they hit "login" they're already authenticated from the AD (unless you're doing something else beyond basic authentication--which should probably happen in `Session_Start`) — Brad Christie, Sep 18 '13 at 20:47
I tried putting [authorize] on top of my controller method, but it doesn't work. — user2701646, Sep 18 '13 at 20:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 18 '13 at 21:01

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Try to get user not from HttpContext but from Controller directly:

Controller.User.Identity.Name or just User.Identity.Name

answered Sep 18 '13 at 21:01

Andrey Gubal

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How to retrieve current logged on user id from IIS

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