Question

I have a Asp.Net MVC application that runs on a shared host under IIS7. The application uses Forms Authentication with the default MembershipProvider. I have following code on one of my pages.

@Environment.UserDomainName - @Environment.UserName

When I visit the site as a anonymous user it shows: WSWB12 – IUSR_139
While if I’m logged in: WORKGROUP – WSWB12$

The problem is that only the IUSR account has write access to my folders. So when a user is logged in it cannot upload any files.

Can I do something about this?
– I would very much prefer to stay with integrated mode.
– Doing impersonation would be ok to me. But it seems like my host has looked that section in machine.config
– Is there any settings my host could do on the virtual directory to make it always use IUSR?

Greatful for any help you can provide.

Answer 1

With Forms Authentication, you should use

HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name

to access the Username…

You should check the Application Pool Identity. You can set that to a user of your choosing, that might have the correct privileges.