ASP.NET impersonation problem

Question

I am trying to get my IIS 7.5 to impersonate the account of the user accessing a site through a browser.

If I use...

    <identity impersonate="true" userName="mydomain\myusername" password="mypassword" />

it works just fine. However, if I use...

    <identity impersonate="true" />

It won't pick up the user. Am I missing some code? Or is this an IIS 7.5 configuration issue?

Answer 1

I posted a previous answer, but I think this one applies better

Try to select if you are using a specific user or pass through. Not 100% sure if this solves your problem, just trying to help!

Answer 2

On the enabling impersonation, check what types of security you have enabled:

• Open IIS

• Go to your site, click on it

• Click on authentication (a blue guy with a lock icon)

• Make sure you have ASP.NET impersonation enabled

Impersonation should be enabled

Answer 3

You have to configure IIS to pass the security token to ASP.NET. See here

Answer 4

Did you try turning on Windows Authentication?