How to get current user who's accessing an ASP.NET application?

Question

To get the current logged in user at the system I use this code:

string opl = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name.ToString();
         


        

Answer 1

I ran in the same issue.

This is what worked for me:

Setting up Properties of Windows Authentication in IIS

NTLM has to be the topmost. Further Web.config modifications, make sure you already have or add if these do not exist:

See below a legit explanation for the two nodes and

Difference between and ?

And, of course , you get the username by

//I am using the following to get the index of the separator "\\" and remove the Domain name from the string
int indexOfSlashChar = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name.IndexOf("\\"); 

loggedInWindowsUserName = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name.Substring(indexOfSlashChar + 1);