[VB2005] Getting Windows account name using Windows Authentication

[mday2792]

Anyone know how to get the name on the windows account using windows auth such as "Joe Smith"?

[space_monkey]

Try Request.LogonUserIdentity.Name

[mday2792]

Thank you but no luck. It gives me "DOMAIN\username".

I would imagine if Windows can authenticate you then you should be able to obtain other account attributes.

Anyone have any suggestions?

[axion_sa]

Yes, if you query Active Directory directly: http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...tive+directory

[mday2792]

How can I query the active directory without specifing a password? I am using Windows Authentication therefore the user is not typing in their logon info.

[axion_sa]

Change the query to search for the authenticated user, e.g. "(&(objecttype=person)(sAMAccountName=foo)", then use a "system" account to execute the query.

[mday2792]

Can you provide a more detailed example? I am not following. Thanks.

[mday2792]

I understand the search query, but what do you mean by a "system account to execute"?

Can you provide an example?

[Harsh Gupta]

Make sure that Anonymous User are not allowed. In the Web Config, set

<authorization>
  <deny users="?"/> ' "?" means anonymous user
</authorization>

Also check in IIS that Integrated Windows Authentication box is checked.

and in your code behind:

System.Security.Principal.IPrincipal user;
user = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User;
string name = user.Identity.Name;
'Display name

[mday2792]

Thanks but it gives me the 'username'. I need the account name or common name such as 'John Doe'.

Does anyone know how to obtain this without using LDAP?