Get list of Roles for a user

[Kishore Gopalan]

I need to get a list of roles to which a User belongs. I tried using the
code,

IdentityReferenceCollection icol = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Groups;

But it only returns SIDs. Is there a way I can get the actual roles to which
a User belongs..?

Thanks

Kishore

 

[Dominick Baier [DevelopMentor]]

Hello Kishore,

you have to convert the SIDs to the "friendly names" afterwards.

private static string[] getRoles(WindowsIdentity id)
{
List<string> groups = new List<string>();
IdentityReferenceCollection irc = id.Groups.Translate(typeof(NTAccount));

foreach (NTAccount acc in irc)
{
groups.Add(acc.Value);
}
return groups.ToArray();