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How do I get Windows Environment Variable USERNAME from an Intranet App? Messages   Related Types This message was discovered on ASPFriends.com 'aspngfreeforall' list. chris I've tried using the Environment class, but the UserName property returns ASPNET, the windows user that started the thread. I've tried other combinations, such as using a WindowsIdentity to populate a WindowsPrincipal object, but with the same end result. I would like to get the %USERNAME% environment variable to transparently identify the current user of an intranet app. I'd like to do this without authenticating the user, as they would already have logged in to our intranet to use their computer. TIA, -Chris Frazier .NET Solution Developer Velocity Databank, Inc. www.velocitydatabank.com Reply to this message...        Barry J. Akester Try this... lblLabel.Text =3D User.Identity.Name; Barry -----Original Message----- From: chris [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 1:22 PM To: aspngfreeforall Subject: [aspngfreeforall] How do I get Windows Environment Variable USERNAME from an Intranet App? I've tried using the Environment class, but the UserName property returns ASPNET, the windows user that started the thread. I've tried other combinations, such as using a WindowsIdentity to populate a WindowsPrincipal object, but with the same end result. I would like to get the %USERNAME% environment variable to transparently identify the current user of an intranet app. I'd like to do this without authenticating the user, as they would already have logged in to our intranet to use their computer. TIA, -Chris Frazier .NET Solution Developer Velocity Databank, Inc. www.velocitydatabank.com | ASP.net DOCS =3D http://www.aspng.com/docs | [aspngfreeforall] member Click here to reveal e-mail address =3D YOUR ID | http://www.asplists.com/aspngfreeforall =3D JOIN/QUIT | news://ls.asplists.com =3D NEWSGROUP Reply to this message...        chris Thanks. I researched it a little and found that it doesn't look like it will work in the context I need it. I ran a trace on the page that I tested this in, and the stateless nature of http is the killer of this idea. setting lblLabel.Text = Environment.UserName; output ASPNET, which is the user that kicked off the threat as far as the computer is concerned. I also tried building a winform and accessing the same environment variable that way; in the constructor of Form1: string user = Environment.UserName; lblLabel.Text = "Hey there, " + user + "!!"; The result was "Hey there, chris!". So it looks like if I want to use the scheme I originally planned for, I'll have to use winforms. No thanks, I'll stick with ASP.NET. -Chris Frazier .NET Solution Developer Velocity Databank, Inc. www.velocitydatabank.com -----Original Message----- From: Barry J. Akester [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 12:48 PM To: aspngfreeforall Subject: [aspngfreeforall] RE: How do I get Windows Environment Variable USERNAME from an Intranet App? Try this... lblLabel.Text = User.Identity.Name; Barry -----Original Message----- From: chris [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 1:22 PM To: aspngfreeforall Subject: [aspngfreeforall] How do I get Windows Environment Variable USERNAME from an Intranet App? I've tried using the Environment class, but the UserName property returns ASPNET, the windows user that started the thread. I've tried other combinations, such as using a WindowsIdentity to populate a WindowsPrincipal object, but with the same end result. I would like to get the %USERNAME% environment variable to transparently identify the current user of an intranet app. I'd like to do this without authenticating the user, as they would already have logged in to our intranet to use their computer. TIA, -Chris Frazier .NET Solution Developer Velocity Databank, Inc. www.velocitydatabank.com | ASP.net DOCS = http://www.aspng.com/docs | [aspngfreeforall] member Click here to reveal e-mail address = YOUR ID | http://www.asplists.com/aspngfreeforall = JOIN/QUIT | news://ls.asplists.com = NEWSGROUP | ASP.net DOCS = http://www.aspng.com/docs | [aspngfreeforall] member Click here to reveal e-mail address = YOUR ID | http://www.asplists.com/aspngfreeforall = JOIN/QUIT | news://ls.asplists.com = NEWSGROUP Reply to this message...        Srinivasa Sivakumar Chris, I think you are trying to get the Windows OS login from ASP.NET. What you can do it, enable the Windows authentication from the Web.config file and look at the "AUTH_USER" server variable. May be this will help you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "chris" <Click here to reveal e-mail address> To: "aspngfreeforall" <Click here to reveal e-mail address> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 2:03 PM Subject: [aspngfreeforall] RE: How do I get Windows Environment Variable USERNAME from an Intranet App? > Thanks. I researched it a little and found that it doesn't look like it will > work in the context I need it. I ran a trace on the page that I tested this [Original message clipped] Reply to this message...        Barry J. Akester Have you tried turing on impersonation? <authentication mode=3D"Windows" />=20 <identity impersonate=3D"true" /> Barry -----Original Message----- From: chris [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 3:03 PM To: aspngfreeforall Subject: [aspngfreeforall] RE: How do I get Windows Environment Variable USERNAME from an Intranet App? Thanks. I researched it a little and found that it doesn't look like it will work in the context I need it. I ran a trace on the page that I tested this in, and the stateless nature of http is the killer of this idea. setting lblLabel.Text =3D Environment.UserName; output ASPNET, which is the user that kicked off the threat as far as the computer is concerned. I also tried building a winform and accessing the same environment variable that way; in the constructor of Form1: string user =3D Environment.UserName; lblLabel.Text =3D "Hey there, " + user + "!!"; The result was "Hey there, chris!". So it looks like if I want to use the scheme I originally planned for, I'll have to use winforms. No thanks, I'll stick with ASP.NET. -Chris Frazier .NET Solution Developer Velocity Databank, Inc. www.velocitydatabank.com -----Original Message----- From: Barry J. Akester [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 12:48 PM To: aspngfreeforall Subject: [aspngfreeforall] RE: How do I get Windows Environment Variable USERNAME from an Intranet App? Try this... lblLabel.Text =3D User.Identity.Name; Barry -----Original Message----- From: chris [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 1:22 PM To: aspngfreeforall Subject: [aspngfreeforall] How do I get Windows Environment Variable USERNAME from an Intranet App? I've tried using the Environment class, but the UserName property returns ASPNET, the windows user that started the thread. I've tried other combinations, such as using a WindowsIdentity to populate a WindowsPrincipal object, but with the same end result. I would like to get the %USERNAME% environment variable to transparently identify the current user of an intranet app. I'd like to do this without authenticating the user, as they would already have logged in to our intranet to use their computer. TIA, -Chris Frazier .NET Solution Developer Velocity Databank, Inc. www.velocitydatabank.com | ASP.net DOCS =3D http://www.aspng.com/docs | [aspngfreeforall] member Click here to reveal e-mail address =3D YOUR ID | http://www.asplists.com/aspngfreeforall =3D JOIN/QUIT | news://ls.asplists.com =3D NEWSGROUP | ASP.net DOCS =3D http://www.aspng.com/docs | [aspngfreeforall] member Click here to reveal e-mail address =3D YOUR ID | http://www.asplists.com/aspngfreeforall =3D JOIN/QUIT | news://ls.asplists.com =3D NEWSGROUP | ASP.net DOCS =3D http://www.aspng.com/docs | [aspngfreeforall] member Click here to reveal e-mail address =3D YOUR ID | http://www.asplists.com/aspngfreeforall =3D JOIN/QUIT | news://ls.asplists.com =3D NEWSGROUP Reply to this message...     System.Environment System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity System.Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal Ad MBR BootFX Best-of-breed application framework for .NET projects, developed by Matthew Baxter-Reynolds and MBR IT

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