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capturing username (intranet)

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SubPar_Coder
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Posted - 2005-05-10 : 12:00:33

I have a asp page on our company's intranet and i want to capture the username that inputs information into the page. I don't make users log in into the webpage since this page is only available within our domain. Is this possible?

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Merkin
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4970 Posts

Posted - 2005-05-10 : 17:58:00

ASP or ASP.NET ?

You need nt authentication to be enabled at the server for this to work.

In ASP, you get the Request.Servervariables("REMOTE_USER") (check that, I think it's right) and do some string parsing to remove the domain part and just get the username.

In asp.net it's similar, but you can get the name by looking at the user of the current Http Context.

Something like :

HttpContext current = HttpContext.Current;
string name = current.User.Identity.Name;
name = name.Substring(name.IndexOf("\\") + 1); //parsing out the domain.

Damian
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SubPar_Coder
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Posted - 2005-05-10 : 18:10:14

I'm running asp.net

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Merkin
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4970 Posts

Posted - 2005-05-10 : 19:19:40

So does that answer your question ?

Damian
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SubPar_Coder
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23 Posts

Posted - 2005-05-10 : 20:30:20

I think so. I will have to tinker with my webpage and see how it works.

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Merkin
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4970 Posts

Posted - 2005-05-10 : 20:58:40

You're welcome

Damian
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jhermiz

3564 Posts

Posted - 2005-05-13 : 09:56:02

Doesnt the domain come in the form of DOMAIN\UserName?

Using a bit of damian's code, translated into vb.net and changing SubString, try this:


        Dim current As HttpContext
        Dim strName As String

        current = HttpContext.Current
        strName = current.User.Identity.Name
        strName = strName.Substring(strName.IndexOf("\") + 1)
        Response.Write(strName)

Ensure that enable anon access is disabled on IIS-2 otherwise it will use the IUSR account.
This will only work with WIN Authentication...to verify you can try Response.Writing the current.User.Identity.AuthenticationType
property.

Jon

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