Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity And Active Directory

Question

Hi All

I want to authenticate Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity when it has entry in active directory or redirect user to login page to check the database for valid user.

MBM

Answer 1

If Integrated Windows Authentication is turned ON in IIS and you've set the identity mode to "windows" in your Web.config, authentication using AD is completely automatic. You should not need a "login page" per se. You can and should do checks like this in your global.asax file in the Application_AuthenticateRequest handler.

You really owe it to yourself to read this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff649337.aspx

And I can't stress how helpful Keith Brown's book is on getting these concepts understood and working properly: http://alt.pluralsight.com/wiki/default.aspx/Keith.GuideBook/HomePage.html