Windows Session Authentication

Question

Hello All,

We have a Windows application built on .Net Framework 4.8. This application provides a login window was until now being handled by an SQLite database.

But now we would want to implement 'Windows Session Management'. We must also get the role of the logged in Windows user as we have a few features that must be available for only for a particular user type.

Can anyone help us on this??

Any help is highly appreciated. Thank you in advance!!

Answer 1

Hi @S Abijith , Welcome to Microsoft Q&A,

You can use Windows Authentication to get the currently logged in Windows user. You can use Environment.UserName or WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent() to get the username of the currently logged in user.

using System.Security.Principal;

string currentUser = Environment.UserName;
// or
WindowsIdentity identity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
string userName = identity.Name;

Windows user roles can be managed through Windows groups. Using WindowsPrincipal and WindowsIdentity, you can determine whether a user belongs to certain Windows groups, such as the Administrators group. Here is the sample code:

using System.Security.Principal;

WindowsIdentity identity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();

WindowsPrincipal principal = new WindowsPrincipal(identity);

// Check if the user is an administrator
bool isAdmin = principal.IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator);

// You can use a custom role name to check if it belongs to a specific group
bool isSpecificRole = principal.IsInRole("YourCustomRoleName");

Based on the obtained user role or Windows group information, you can restrict access to various functions of the application.

Best Regards,

Jiale

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