Full name & email from principal

[David Thielen]

Hi;

I am supporting both ActiveDirectory and the built-in 2.0 forms support for
authentication/authorization. How can I get the user's full name and email
address in each case?

 

[Joe Kaplan \(MVP - ADSI\)]

By full name, do you mean the AD displayName attribute? For email address,
you'd need to do an LDAP lookup to AD, searching based on the name the user
used to authenticate, and retrieve the attributes you want (like mail and
displayName, if that's what you meant). You would basically just use the
DirectorySearcher class for that.

Joe K.

 

[David Thielen]

Hi;

Yes & yes. However, I also need it when they use forms authentication which
uses the built-in asp 2.0 .net stuff. Those columns are in the database it
creates. But there seems to be no way to get them.

 

[Joe Kaplan \(MVP - ADSI\)]

I'm not sure how to get them from the membership database. Someone else
will konw though.

Do you need help with the LDAP query?

Joe K.

 

[David Thielen]

Hi;

I don't think so - I have some code I wrote awhile ago that did this so I
just need to find it. Thank you for the offer.

 

[Dominick Baier [DevelopMentor]]

the database has a bunch of stored procedure, which are called from the membership
provider,

Membership.GetUser returns a MembershipUser object which contains all info
membership knows about...

 

[David Thielen]

Hi;

How do I get the MembershipProvider object? That sounds like what I need.

--
thanks - dave
david_at_windward_dot_net
http://www.windwardreports.com

 

[Dominick Baier [DevelopMentor]]

the static Membership class is a facade to the provider - the rest is done
in web.config.