Failed to Get the Current Logged in user

Question

User-1230161102 posted

Hi
After I hosted a site in IIS, I am trying to get the current logged user but I keep getting 

IIS APPPOOL/XYZ

The command I am using is

System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name

I am not getting the user id of the domain user although it is working fine when I run it from inside visual studio. 

In IIS I enabled windows authentication and disable all the rest.

Please advise

Answer 1

User-474980206 posted

You are getting the thread identity, which is the pool account. Use Context.User.Name to get the login user. Context can get injected if you need it in middleware.

Answer 2

User-2054057000 posted

You can use the below code to get your username:

private UserManager<AppUser> userManager;
public AccountController(UserManager<AppUser> userMgr)
{
    userManager = userMgr;
}
 
[Authorize]
public async Task<IActionResult> Index()
{
    AppUser user = await userManager.GetUserAsync(HttpContext.User);
    string message = "Hello " + user.UserName;
    return View();
}

More in at Showing Logged in User’s name

Answer 3

User-1230161102 posted

I got a quick way to do it 

User.Identity.Name.ToString();

Thank u