HOWTO Gather current user name from win service ?

[Alper Camel]

Hi all dear friends, I have a win. service, and I try to read the current user name, the following methods DONT work, please help. 1. Way : --> System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name; 2. Way : --> Environment.UserName; these are dont work, becuase, win service run as a account "system" default. any other ideas ? Cheers...

[Colin Angus Mackay]

Alper Sümer Güç wrote:

these are dont work, becuase, win service run as a account "system" default

Actually, that is showing the correct result. The current user IS "System". Each process running runs in its given security context and as far as the application is concerned that is the current user.

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