Getting Authenticated User's Username On A Subdomain
Mar 21, 2011
I have Forms authentication setup for an ASP.NET 4.0 application on http://example.com - we'll call it MainApp. I also have an ASP.NET 4.0 app running on http://static.example.com which (let's call it SubApp) doesn't have access to the main app.
Now, SubApp needs to figure out usernames of users who first logged in to the MainApp and then came to SubApp. I thought that it's enough for those two apps to have the same machine keys and for the SubApp to specify in web.config, so it could read the MainApp's authentication cookie and get username from it.
I did a simple test and when I try to hit some page on SubApp it keeps redirecting to http://static.example.com/login.aspx - which doesn't even exist not specified in web.config. Apparently my approach doesn't work, though I don't understand why - main domain's cookie should be accessible on a subdomain, right?
I am using the sqlmembership provider with the login control from the toolbox. I want to capture the validated username after the user is authenticated. I need the username so that when the user adds or modifies a record i can have an audit trail. where is the best place to capture the validated user right after authentication? Ideally, i would like to capture it on the login form but how?
I have a requirement related to subdomains. Here are the details.I am using .NET 4.0, IIS7, ASP.NET 4.0. I have an web application hosted as "mycompany.com". I have some clients, say client1, register at my site. I want to give him a
After a user is authenticated I store their username in session state but if the session times out, I want to create a new session for the user based on their username they authenticated with original. How can I get from Forms Authentication the currently authenticated user?
the Web Part for anonymous user and authenticated user is displayed differently. I faced this problem twise. First time when used Silverlight control in the Web Part and second time when used devexpress control in the Web Part. In both cases problem was with displaying for anonymous user. Silverlight control didn't display. Devexpress control lost it's styles. Both controls had properties that pointed to files. Silverlight control property pointed to the XAP file, and Devexpress control property pointed to the CSS file. It seems to me, that for anonymous user the Web Part cannot find this path or doesn't allow to link to other files.
I am using form authentication in my website. I have a scenario wherein the user is authenticated but the session has timed out. So, i would like to initialize some session variables in Session_Start of Global.asax (First i check if Request.IsAuthenticated=True). For that i required the name of the user who authenticated. On .aspx pages we can get it using Page.User.Identity.Name but how to get it in global.asax page.
I've a default.aspx page in my application's root folder. I added a a page in the root of inetpub that redirects requests to the default page. The idea is that the user need only enter the server name to get to the default page. How can I set things up so that all users have access to the default.aspx and that they only have access to the other pages once they've been authenticated?
I am using Windows Integrated Security and the users are being challenged and authenticated properly. I want them to be able to access Default.aspx without any challenges.
(On a side note which may answer this question, when using WIS does the user *allows* have to be challenged? Isn't it possible to pass through their Windows User and ID without the prompt?)
c: inetpubwwwroot edirect.aspx (set as default document in IIS and simple executes Response.redirect("sites/mercury/default.aspx") c:documents and settingsall usersdocumentswebsitesmercurydefault.aspx (home page for the site & server)web.config includes
I have a WCF service that will be using basic authentication and would like to be able identify "who" is trying to use the service. I know that the HttpContext.Current is NULL and in the WCF service, but do not know what the alternative is to get the username.
What I want to do is take traffic that is going to shop.mywebsite.com and redirect or rewrite (I'm not sure of the terminology) the domain to be www.mywebsite.com/shop. Both shop.* and www.* are separate web applications (nopCommerce and Umbraco respectively) that don't seem to cooperate when I've tried to nest them. Both applications are in a Server 2008 R2/IIS 7.5 environment.
I've searched around stackoverflow and what I've found is a lot of answers to mapping the other direction (ie subfolder to a subdomain) but that's not what I'm looking for as far as I understand the problem.
The end goal is to combine the SEO reputation of the shop subdomain into the www subdomain. I readily admit that I might have this all backwards and am willing to try any suggestions I'm offered.
I have an app with multiple subdomains, subone.parent.com, subtwo.parent.com.
I have a logon page at parent.com/login. When a user logs in I redirect them to the proper domain based on which one they are a member of. This works fine.
FormsAuthenticationTicket ticket = new FormsAuth... string encTicket = FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(ticket); var cookie = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName, encTicket); cookie.Domain = subone.parent.com Repsonse.Cookies.Add(cookie)
This properly authenticates the user for subone.parent.com and not subtwo.parent.com. However I would like to do the following.
If the user goes back to parent.com, I would like to know that they are logged in and redirect them back to subone.parent.com.
Is there a best practice for accomplishing this? Or do I have to set another cookie for parent.com?
I have created a website which has Secure folder in which i have got a form which only "admin role" users can see. Now that form will appear if login is successful and it works great, if password or username is wrong then again the loginForm will appear which works great too.
Now the problem is if the users which are not in "admin role" enter the user name and password correctly, instead of coming back to the login page and showing them the "Not Authenticated" message, it gives me an error that myWebsite/login.aspx is not found. I think this is because the name for my login page is "AdminLoginPage.aspx" and which is not found and hence it shows me the error. I dont know where to change the login Page name to "AdminLoginPage.aspx"
I want to have my code fetch the authenticated user name that is running my code. There's a line or two of code that will accomplish this and I had it but I've misplaced it.
I have a web application on IIS that will authenticate using windows authentication (Active Directory). So when they access the application http://iisserver/webappname/ it ask for username pwd and domain. (currently working) How can I get information of the authenticated user in the web app through c#?
I am trying to integrate my asp.net 4.0(non MVC) website with facebook. I want to retrive the authenticated user info.The samples listed in facebooksdk is based on MVC. i tried to implement it in my website, but getting errors. i am struck.If anyone implemented the facebook connect logic and retrieved the user information using facebook-c#-sdk, please help me how to do this.I tried the same using facebooktoolkit, and i am able to retrive the user info. but the toolkit is having issues with .net 4.0.
I am building a RESTful service using WCF. I basically want to save information about a user when they authenticate to the WCF service. For example I want to save their first name, last name, account number , and password in order to access the information in other requests in the same session. Since this information is sensitive I can not store it in a cookie.
I don't want to use asp.net session state because I plan to run this WCF as a Windows Service. Is there something (class, Assembly) I can use that can save user information and retrieve it per request or do I have to create a custom solution that will create an entry in a database every time a client authenticates to the WCF service.
We have a SSO solution with ADFS for logging into our web app, we also have standard setup that uses authentication with our database. I want to setup a solution that allows for both. So now I am trying to figure out, is there any way for ASP.NET to detect if a user is authenticated with Active Directory so I could do this on the fly? If user is logged in through AD, send through ADFS, else, show login screen. I also realize that this may not work if they are setup to use forms based authentication only after the ADFS process is started.
I got only one ideas to control with the session. When user log into the master page, I insert the current login user and session ID and active status to the SQL table. if user logout manually or close the browser or session expired, I want to change the inactive status. So I can check how many active user are there and the system can prompt the required info to the user. But now, I can't find the soultion to change the inactive
status in above condition.
That doesn't seem right to me. I m sure I 'm making incorrect assumption about this matter.
I am trying to create a httphandler which will intercept a sample pdf file which we have in our website. The httphandler works fine from within my development machine and even my locally published website that if I just try to connect to the test url: [URL] I will get sent to the invalid access page. So pushing it to our IIS6 machine when I try to go to the URL it serves up the PDF document. context.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated is always showing as true. I'm using forms authentication. below is the code I am using as the handler.
public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) { if (context.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated) { string SampleURL = context.Request.AppRelativeCurrentExecutionFilePath; context.Response.Buffer = true; context.Response.Clear(); using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(SampleURL),FileMode.Open)) { int length = (int)fs.Length; byte[] buffer; using (BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(fs)) { buffer = br.ReadBytes(length); } context.Response.Clear(); context.Response.Buffer = true; context.Response.ContentType = "application/pdf"; context.Response.BinaryWrite(buffer); context.Response.End(); } } else { context.Response.Redirect( "~/Error/invalid_access.aspx"); }}
in web.config I have the following for form authentication:
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