What's the difference between retrieving WindowsPrincipal from WindowsIdentity and Thread.CurrentPrincipal?

Question

I am trying to work out why attribute based security isn\'t working as I\'d expect in WCF and I suspect it might have something to do with the following:

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Answer 1

I admit it's a rather ugly workaround, but if all else fails you could replace:

principal = (WindowsPrincipal)Thread.CurrentPrincipal;

with something like

principal = new WindowsPrincipal(new WindowsIdentity(Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity.Name));

If that doesn't work, it will probably at least be instructive in showing where things are going wrong.

But I can't imagine it failing, since it does exactly the same thing (where it is relevant) as the line that worked: I assume Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity.Name is "ksarfo".