Windows Auth - Active Directory

From: J. Shane Kunkle (shane_at_caudillweb.com)
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:20:35 -0400

Hello,

I have a web application that uses windows authentication. All the users
log in using an active directory account. When an authenticated user
performs certain actions I would like to retrieve specific information from
their active directory record (email address, etc).

I can obviously get their "domain\account" from
HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name - but what is the easiest way to
access active directory records in this case?

I feel like there should be some easy way to access active directory
information in this situation because the user is already authenticated (a
property of the User object, etc) however I have not found anything yet.

The best examples I have found use the DirectorySearcher and DirectoryEntry
objects but this seems to be quite a bit of work and I was hoping there
would be an easier way.

What is the recommended way to access active directory information in this
situation?

Any advice or direction is greatly appreciated - Thanks in advance,

J. Shane Kunkle
jkunkle@vt.edu

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