login problem

M

MS News Public

Hi

I have an asp.net 2.0 project and am experiencing a problem.

In the project, I am trying to make use of Membership.

I have one Role, called "Basic User" and two users - "admin" and "test".

"admin" is a member of the Role but "test" is not.

I have only a few pages in the project at the moment: -

.. SecurePage.aspx - The page I want only authenticated users that are
members of the Role to use.

.. Login.aspx - Login page

.. Unauthorized.aspx - Informs user that they cannot view the secure page
because of a lack of permissions

SecurePage.aspx just contains a ChangePassword control.

Unauthorized.aspx has some text and a LoginStatus control.

So in the SecurePage.aspx, I have this code to handle this: -

Protected Sub form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs)

If User.Identity.IsAuthenticated = False Then
Server.Transfer("login.aspx")
End If

If Roles.IsUserInRole("Basic User") = False Then
Server.Transfer("unauthorized.aspx")
End If

End Sub

If I go to the SecurePage and am not authenticated, it transfers me to
login.aspx.

If I then login with the user "admin", which is in the Role "Basic User", it
works ok.

If I first login with "test", which is NOT in the Role, then I am transfered
to the "unauthorized.aspx" page.

Upto this point, this is fine.

However, if I click "Logout" on the LoginStatus control on the
"unauthorized" page it refreshes and changes to display "Login".

So, if I then click "Login", I am taken back to the login page. The URL in
the address bar at this point is: -

http://localhost:1489/Lesson09/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=/unauthorized.aspx

If I then login with using "admin" - which is a member of the Role - this is
where I get a problem.

Instead of being taken to the SecurePage.aspx as expected, I get taken back
to the "unauthorized.aspx" page.

This is obviously wrong.

Now, I know that this should work but does anybody know why it is not
working?

Is there some settings or something I need to change on my PC? Am I missing
a step or not doing something?

I've checked the obvious things - like that the user was actually in the
Role etc.

However, I just cannot get this to work.

I am new to ASP.Net and so I don't really know where to start to look for
what the problem is?

I have gone through re-doing the project twice now and I still get the same
problem.

For info, I am using: -

- Visual Studio .Net 2005 (Professional) (up to date)
- Latest .Net installed
- Windows XP Pro
- Internet Explorer 6 (version 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519) SP2

This project is actually from a training video from learnvisualstudio.net
(available also via www.asp.net). It is Lesson 09 on ASP basics. On the
video, this project works fine, but it does not on my PC.

I would very much appreciate any help or advice on this problem.

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards
Darren Brook
email: (e-mail address removed)
 
N

Nick

this may not be the most helpful advice, but have you set a breakpoint
in the application and gone through line by line looking at the
variables and confirming that they are correct and that the logic is
correct?

that might help to see where the problem is.

Nick
 

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