Obtain Network Credentials from Current User in Windows Authentication Application

Question

I was wondering whether it was possible to obtain the current user object and get their credentials so that I can pass them along to a NetworkCredential object whic

Answer 1

I don't fully understand your question, but is your call coming from ASP.NET that you require the credentials? You could attempt:

Uri uri = new Uri("http://tempuri.org/");
ICredentials credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
NetworkCredential credential = credentials.GetCredential(uri, "Basic");

Assuming your user has already authenticated via a Membership Provider.

Answer 2

CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials?

The credentials returned by DefaultNetworkCredentials represents the authentication credentials for the current security context in which the application is running. For a client-side application, these are usually the Windows credentials (user name, password, and domain) of the user running the application.