Authentication - Where To Store The Username Of Logged In User
Sep 29, 2010
When a user log into my asp.net site I use the following code:
FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(userid, false);
As I often need to use the userid I can then later get the userid by:
string userid = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name;
Now I also want to show the logged in username on each page and my questions is therefore where do I place the username best if I need to use it on every page. User.Identity.Name is already taken by the userid so I can't use that one. Another solution would be to get the username from the database on each page, but that seems like a bad solution.
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Jan 12, 2011
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Mar 19, 2010
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Jan 25, 2010
Ok, I almost hate to ask this because I'm sure it's been covered many times on this forum, but I'm starting to get too frustrated trying to get it to work, so I'm gonna ask anyway.I have setup forms authentication on my site and have it working without any issues. What I'm trying to do now is to add "Remember Me" functionality so that the users don't have to log in each time they access the site. I'm able to get the authentication part down, but the issue I'm having is that when the user logs in, I set certain attributes in Session variables for that user (name, site role, etc.). These values are obtained from a database after the user has been authenticated, based on the username. What I'm having problems with is getting at this username from the FormsAuthentication cookie.
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Mar 17, 2011
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Sep 21, 2010
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<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Login.aspx.vb" Inherits="Login" %>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
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Here is the Reports form that has the dropdown on it:
<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Report.aspx.vb" Inherits="Report" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
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where I would look to begin debugging this issue?
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Jun 16, 2010
For some reason my users are logged out of the system every 10-15 minutes or so...regardless of the configuration below....am I missing something?
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Jun 13, 2010
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Oct 5, 2010
I have a WCF application set up to use UserName authentication through the built in MembershipProvider. When I call up a simple test function to see if the user is authenticated I get false. I've included as much info as I can.
The simple method in WCF:
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Identity.Username and all that is blank as well.
This is the test code I'm using (from a test project):
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And here are the relevant sections of web.config:
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