What is the best way to determine if CurrentUser is System Account?

Question

Traditionally I use:

if (web.CurrentUser.Name == "System Account")

Is there a possibility the System Account Name could be something other then "System Account". Is there a more reliable way to check if CurrentUser is the System Account?

This is using SharePoint 2010.

Answer 1

To check if the Current User is system account you can use

if (web.CurrentUser.ID == web.Site.SystemAccount.ID) 

SystemAccount is a property of SPSite object which gets the System Account of the site collection

Answer 2

SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser.ID == SPContext.Current.Site.SystemAccount.ID

This method is suitable?

Answer 3

Yes actually you can.

• Go to central administration

  1. Click on Security on the left
  2. Click on "Specify web application user policy"
  3. Click on the account you want to check on
  4. Check or uncheck the "Choose System Settings" option with "Account Operates as System"