How do I get the current username in .NET using C#?

Question

How do I get the current username in .NET using C#?

Answer 1

I tried several combinations from existing answers, but they were giving me

DefaultAppPool
IIS APPPOOL
IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool

I ended up using

string vUserName = User.Identity.Name;

Which gave me the actual users domain username only.

Answer 2

I totally second the other answers, but I would like to highlight one more method which says

String UserName = Request.LogonUserIdentity.Name;

The above method returned me the username in the format: DomainName\UserName. For example, EUROPE\UserName

Which is different from:

String UserName = Environment.UserName;

Which displayed in the format: UserName

And finally:

String UserName = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name;

which gave: NT AUTHORITY\IUSR (while running the application on IIS server) and DomainName\UserName (while running the application on a local server).

Answer 3

Here is the code (but not in C#):

Private m_CurUser As String

Public ReadOnly Property CurrentUser As String
    Get
        If String.IsNullOrEmpty(m_CurUser) Then
            Dim who As System.Security.Principal.IIdentity = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent()

            If who Is Nothing Then
                m_CurUser = Environment.UserDomainName & "\" & Environment.UserName
            Else
                m_CurUser = who.Name
            End If
        End If
        Return m_CurUser
    End Get
End Property

Here is the code (now also in C#):

private string m_CurUser;

public string CurrentUser
{
    get
    {
        if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(m_CurUser))
        {
            var who = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
            if (who == null)
                m_CurUser = System.Environment.UserDomainName + @"\" + System.Environment.UserName;
            else
                m_CurUser = who.Name;
        }
        return m_CurUser;
    }
}

Answer 4

Use System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.UserName for the actually logged in user as Environment.UserName still returns the account being used by the current process.

Answer 5

The documentation for Environment.UserName seems to be a bit conflicting:

Environment.UserName Property

On the same page it says:

Gets the user name of the person who is currently logged on to the Windows operating system.

AND

displays the user name of the person who started the current thread

If you test Environment.UserName using RunAs, it will give you the RunAs user account name, not the user originally logged on to Windows.

Answer 6

try this

ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT UserName FROM Win32_ComputerSystem");
ManagementObjectCollection collection = searcher.Get();
string username = (string)collection.Cast<ManagementBaseObject>().First()["UserName"];

now it looks better