Asp.net Core Web API - Current user & Windows Authentication

Question

We have following technical stack in our application AngularJS2 Asp.Net Core API SQL Server

Now we need to store User Name for the Logged in User in table during Cre

Answer 1

I looked around and it was suggested to create Asp.Net Core WebApi application using Windows Authentication.

So when i created Asp.Net Core WebApi using Windows Authentication it worked and i got values in User.Identity objects.

So i created 2 applications i.e. one with Windows Authentication and one without, and then compared all files and found changes in following files

• forwardWindowsAuthToken - true, this was tried before but issue was not solved and same was suggested by Daboul
• launchSettings.json, Set windowsAuthentication: true & anonymousAuthentication: false

After doing this, I was able to values in User.Identity object.

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The launchSettings.json file:

{
  "iisSettings": {
    "windowsAuthentication": true,
    "anonymousAuthentication": false
    }
}

The Web.Config: