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Here is a trivial console application that i run in command prompt: using System; using System.Threading; namespace Test { internal class Runner { [STAThread] static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine(Thread.CurrentPrincipal.GetType().Name); Console.WriteLine(Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity.Name); } } } The output is 'GenericPrincipal' and empty string as identity name. Why the run-time constructs GenericPrincipal instead of WindowsPrincipal ? How do i force it to construct WindowsPrincipal from the security token of the starting process (cmd.exe in my case)? You have to tell your

In the constructor of my WCF service class I am setting the current principal to be that of the principal passed in the header of the message: Thread.CurrentPrincipal = OperationContext.Current.IncomingMessageHeaders.GetHeader<BBPrincipal>("bbPrincipal", "ns"); This seems to work fine, however when I come to reference the principal in a method, the Thread.CurrentPrincipal has reverted to a WindowsPrincipal. Presumably the method is firing on a different thread. How can I ensure that the method is using the principal set in the constructor of the service? I've just found the answer to my

I want to be able to access custom properties for an authenticated user like UserId and FirstName without querying the database each time. I found this site through a post on Stack Overflow and I like the approach - but I use IoC / repositories and decided not to try and get global.asax to communicate with the database for fear that it would be incompatible with the repository pattern. Instead, I created an interface to CustomPrincipal and I use IoC (Castle) to create an instance and pass it to the controllers (and subsequently to my base controller). The base controller uses methods I created

As part of Spring 3 MVC it is possible to inject the currently logged in user (Principle) object into a controller method. E.g. @Controller public class MyController { @RequestMapping(value="/update", method = RequestMethod.POST) public String update(ModelMap model, Principal principal) { String name = principal.getName(); ... the rest here } } This is documented as part of the Spring 3 documentation here: http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/mvc.html#mvc-ann-requestmapping-arguments . This works in the production code. However I don't know how to

I want do get Active Directory Properties from a user and I want to use System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement . my code: public static void GetUserProperties(string dc,string user) { PrincipalContext ctx = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, dc); UserPrincipal u = UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(ctx, user); string firstname = u.GivenName; string lastname = u.Surname; string email = u.EmailAddress; string telephone = u.VoiceTelephoneNumber; ...//how I can get company and other properties? } You can transition into the DirectoryServices namespace to get any property you need.