Question

How is this possible? Using MVC Razor, I marked my method with the [Authorize] attribute, which means that a user must be logged in to access the view right? But, sometimes I am getting the User.Identity.Name value as a null (so who’s logged in then?).

my method does not have any roles defined in the authorize attribute, its like so:

[Authorize]
public ActionResult PageToView(){
...
return View();
}

EDIT: I am using the default Role and Membership providers.

Answer 1

I had a similar issue before and it was because the HttpContext.Current.User was never being populated.

Please have a look at HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name returning null.

I hope that helps.