Get username and domain of Foreign Security Principal from domain trust

January 14 2013 by Brandon in Active Directory, C# |2 Comments

You can use this code to determine the DOMAIN\username from the Foreign Security Principal which is really the SID of the account. Pass the full distinguishedName of the ForeignSecurityPrincipal. static string GetUserNameOfFSP(string ForeignSecurityPrincipal) { //Returns with syntax of "DOMAIN\logonname" try { DirectoryEntry user = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" + ForeignSecurityPrincipal); SecurityIdentifier sid = new SecurityIdentifier((byte[])user.InvokeGet("objectSid"), 0); NTAccount […]

Authenticate a user against Active Directory including domain trust

January 14 2013 by Brandon in Active Directory, C# |No Comments

Authenticate a user’s credentials with this code against a domain. This also works with a domain trust. static bool AuthenticateUser(string userName, string password, string domain) { bool authentic = false; try { DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" + domain, userName, password); object nativeObject = entry.NativeObject; authentic = true; } catch (DirectoryServicesCOMException e) { Console.Write(e.Message); } […]