Get the account that ASP.NET runs under

[Mircea Pleteriu]

Hi all,

How to programatically obtain the account that ASP.NET runs under regardless
of what the OS is.

Thank you,
Mircea

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

Use :

Environment.Username

 

[Mircea Pleteriu]

Thanks... but to be more clear...

I have a .NET console application which must determine the user account
under which the IIS runs the asp.net applications.
Under W2K it is the ASPNET, under W2K3 Server it is NETWORK SERVICE...
so.. I need a way to determine the account whatever the OS is.

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

A console app will always run as the logged-in Windows account.


Your problem is not finding out what the OS is.

ASP.NET can run as *any* account under any OS,
if ASP.NET has been setup to run using impersonation.

So, your first problem would be finding out
whether ASP.NET is using impersonation.

For that, if you're not running within an ASP.NET AppDomain,
you'd have to parse machine.config or the particular web.config.