RE: ASP.Net detect Windows Account

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From: Jim Cheshire [MSFT] (jamesche_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:36:44 GMT

Hi Chris,

Your suspicion is correct. The answer is no.

Jim Cheshire [MSFT]
MCP+I, MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA
Microsoft Developer Support
jamesche@online.microsoft.com

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>I believe the answer to this is an emphatic NO, but please confirm. Can
you determine the windows user account from a webpage when the page is
being run under the generic asp.net internet user account (ie, no
authentication scheme implemented). I see that you can retrieve the IP
address of the remote machine in the Request object, but am positive that
you cannot get to the windows account name.
>
>Can any other web languages accomplish this? I believe the answer to be NO.
>
>Thanks
>

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