I am using ASP.NET MVC 4 and Windows Authentication. When I am using VisualStudio everything works fine, but when I deploy my site an exception is thrown.
var emailAddress = UserPrincipal.Current.EmailAddress;
throws:
Unable to cast object of type 'System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.GroupPrincipal' to type 'System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.UserPrincipal'.
The rest works fine. Users can authenticate and I can get the users name etc.
EDIT:
I enabled Impersonation on IIS. Now I get the following exception:
[DirectoryServicesCOMException (0x80072020): An operations error occurred. ] System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind(Boolean throwIfFail) +781 System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind() +44 System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.get_AdsObject() +42 System.DirectoryServices.PropertyValueCollection.PopulateList() +29
System.DirectoryServices.PropertyValueCollection..ctor(DirectoryEntry entry, String propertyName) +119
System.DirectoryServices.PropertyCollection.get_Item(String propertyName) +163
System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.PrincipalContext.DoLDAPDirectoryInitNoContainer() +535649 System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.PrincipalContext.DoDomainInit() +51 System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.PrincipalContext.Initialize() +141 System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.PrincipalContext.get_QueryCtx() +42 System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.Principal.FindByIdentityWithTypeHelper(PrincipalContext context, Type principalType, Nullable`1 identityType, String identityValue, DateTime refDate) +27
System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.Principal.FindByIdentityWithType(PrincipalContext context, Type principalType, IdentityType identityType, String identityValue) +146
System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(PrincipalContext context, IdentityType identityType, String identityValue) +44
System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.UserPrincipal.get_Current() +390 Jericho.MVC.HtmlHelperExtensions.GetUser(HtmlHelper htmlHelper) in C:\Development\Jericho\Jericho.MVC\HtmlHelperExtensions.cs:48
What can I do?
Set the IIS Application Pool Identity to NetworkService and use:
var identityName = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name;
using (HostingEnvironment.Impersonate())
{
using (var context = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, "yourDomain", null, ContextOptions.Negotiate | ContextOptions.SecureSocketLayer))
using (var userPrincipal = UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(context, IdentityType.SamAccountName, identityName))
{
emailAddress = userPrincipal.EmailAddress;
lastname = userPrincipal.Surname;
firstname = userPrincipal.GivenName;
}
}
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