Testing intranet site that uses Windows authentication

Question

I'm trying to develop an intranet app/website that uses Windows authentication.

I'd like to test it with multiple users, for roles etc.

At the moment I'm only using my own domain account. Is there a way I could simulate different users for the site?

Answer 1

As a picture is worth a thousand words here it goes how to do it in IE based on 2GDev's comment copied here for clarity:

Go to Internet Options => Security => Local Intranet => Custom Level and change the User Authentication to "Prompt for username and password"

Click OK then Apply. Close the browser. Reopen it and point it to the website's URL you want to debug. You should happily see the login prompt where you can login with a different User account to simulate concurrency for example (this is what I'm doing right now here):

Answer 2

When you use Windows Authentication you can change your identity by running the browser as another user.

In windows, go to the browser exe (or a shortcut), right-click on the icon and select "Run as.." from the menu. This will prompt you to specify the username and password to run the account under.

Provided the identity you specify has access to the machine you are running on, the browser will then be running "as" identity specified. If you browse to a site using Windows Authentication, it will authenticate using the identity specified, instead of your own.