I’m writing to the Application event log from an ASP.NET webapp. How can I populate the “User” field of the log entry?
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I’m writing to the Application event log from an ASP.NET webapp. How can I populate the “User” field of the log entry?
The user that is recorded in the event log entry is the user that “owns” the thread (from a security perspective) at the time the event logging call was made. In an ASP.Net application (by default) this will be the account that ASP.Net is running under.
You can change which user a thread is running under using windows impersonation. For an example question on SO, see:
Windows Impersonation from C#
This is a non-trivial area, and not a case of simply supplying user details to the event logging call.