How to retrieve windows user while sending angular request to .Net Core 8?

I've been struggling too much on this, I have an Angular application with .Net Core 8 and all I want is to get the windows user from a client request because I need to log who makes certain action.

I have tried too many things and none of them work, I always get isAuthenticated = false, here is my code, can somebody help me?

Program.cs

var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);

builder.Services.AddControllers();
builder.Services.AddHttpContextAccessor();
...
app.UseAuthentication();
app.UseAuthorization();


launchingSettings.json

{
"$schema": "http://json.schemastore.org/launchsettings.json",
"iisSettings": {
"windowsAuthentication": true,
"anonymousAuthentication": true,
"iisExpress": {
"applicationUrl": "http://localhost:2390",
"sslPort": 0
}
},
"profiles": {
"http": {
"commandName": "Project",
"dotnetRunMessages": true,
"launchBrowser": true,
"applicationUrl": "http://localhost:5015",
"environmentVariables": {
"ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT": "Development",
"ASPNETCORE_HOSTINGSTARTUPASSEMBLIES": "Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaProxy"
}
},
"IIS Express": {
"commandName": "IISExpress",
"launchBrowser": true,
"environmentVariables": {
"ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT": "Development",
"ASPNETCORE_HOSTINGSTARTUPASSEMBLIES": "Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaProxy"
}
}
}
}


proxy.config.js

const { env } = require('process');

const target = env.ASPNETCORE_HTTPS_PORT ? `https://localhost:${env.ASPNETCORE_HTTPS_PORT}` :
env.ASPNETCORE_URLS ? env.ASPNETCORE_URLS.split(';')[0] : 'http://localhost:5015';

const PROXY_CONFIG = [
{
context: [
"/api/MyApi",
],
target,
secure: false,
onProxyRes: proxyRes => {
const key = "www-authenticate";
proxyRes.headers[key] = proxyRes.headers[key] &&
proxyRes.headers[key].split(",");
}
}
]

module.exports = PROXY_CONFIG;



MyApiController.cs

public MyApiController(IHttpContextAccessor httpContextAccessor)
{
this.httpContextAccessor = httpContextAccessor;
}

[HttpGet]
public List<string> GetMyApi()
{
//Here I need to get the windows user and I always get isAuthenticated = false
//...
}


I'm also passing withCredentials = true when calling the api

this.http.get<string>[]>('/api/MyApi', { withCredentials: true })

This is the info when calling the api, I'm not sure if the authentication is in fact being passed, one thing I noticed is that server says: "Kestrel" and I read that there is no windows authentication using that, is that true? Would that be the issue? I also tried using IIS Express but then I get 500 error.



Let me know if you need more info, I would also appreciate if you can point me to the right direction, I'm new in .Net Core by the way.

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