Question

My problem is that I have a asp.net solution that uses a seperate project for logging and now I want the log to save the logged in user. Windows authentication is used for the webapp and the app pool is run under a service account. So when I call the logger through a method(static) I want the logger to pick up who is the logged in user. The only thing I currently get is the service account that the app pool run under.

Any ideas of how to get the user from the webapp?

Answer 1

Make sure that your thread principal is the same as the System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User

At the end of the Application_AuthenticateRequest method in your global.asax, you may need something like:

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User;