Why is my Admin user magically transformed to SHAREPOINT\system?

Question

I have an administator, which also is Farm Administrator in my Sharepoint environment. It is synced via UPSA and have all the properties I need do display content the right way. However - when I check the admin user in code behind it gets magically transferred to be SHAREPOINT\system instead of DOMAIN\Administrator... why is that?

Code behind:

try
{
    SPWeb currentWeb = SPContext.Current.Web;
    SPUser currentUser = currentWeb.CurrentUser;
    // currentUser is now SHAREPOINT\System

The Code behind is in a regular WebControlCode. Regular non-admin users get the correct currentUser attribute.

Answer 1

Use something like this -

private SPUser GetCurrentUser()
{    
    if (SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser.LoginName.Equals("SHAREPOINT\\system"))     
        return SPContext.Current.Web.SiteUsers[HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name];     

    return SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser;
}

and then use it in your code -

SPUser currentUser = GetCurrentUser();

If you are unsure about SPContext.Current.Web you may pass the SPWeb object as paramater

Hope this helps :)