forms authentication

[Brian Shannon]

I have an intranet site I created when I first began .NET and it is very
basic. Now that I have developed my skills I am looking to revamp the old
with something new. I really like the idea of using forms authentication.

My problem is with assigning roles. The documents I have read talks about
assigning roles in the web.config file. This seems like it would be very
tedious to manage. Currenly I have all roles stored in a SQL 2000 DB and I
manually manage all the security of my pages.

Does anyone have input on roles with forms authentication and using a DB to
manage them?
Does anyone have good white papers or links on forms authentication?

Thanks

 

[Craig Deelsnyder]

Does anyone have input on roles with forms authentication and using a DB to
manage them?
Does anyone have good white papers or links on forms authentication?

Thanks

A good explanation of how to set custom roles on the User object

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/082703-1.aspx

Note there are some links on the 2nd page of that article as well (at
the end) for more info...

 

[John Saunders]

I have an intranet site I created when I first began .NET and it is very
basic. Now that I have developed my skills I am looking to revamp the old
with something new. I really like the idea of using forms authentication.

My problem is with assigning roles. The documents I have read talks about
assigning roles in the web.config file. This seems like it would be very
tedious to manage. Currenly I have all roles stored in a SQL 2000 DB and I
manually manage all the security of my pages.

Does anyone have input on roles with forms authentication and using a DB to
manage them?
Does anyone have good white papers or links on forms authentication?

Take a look at the following MSDN articles:



Forms Authentication Provider
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/ht
ml/cpconTheCookieAuthenticationProvider.asp)



Protecting All Files Using Forms Authentication
(http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/Article/F32DFC79-3AE7-4D9D-BF1D-91B4B6D130C7.d
cik)



Forms Authentication Across Applications
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/ht
ml/cpconformsauthenticationacrossapplications.asp)




HOW TO: Implement Role-Based Security with Forms-Based Authentication in
Your ASP.NET Application by Using Visual C# .NET
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311495)