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ASP.NET 4 Unleashed
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ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

by Stephen Walther, Kevin Hoffman, Nate Dudek
October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1920 pages
73h 55m
English
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Configuring Authorization

Authorization refers to the process of identifying the resources that you are allowed to access. You control authorization by adding an authorization element to a web configuration file.

Authorization works the same way regardless of the type of authentication that is enabled. In other words, you configure authorization in the same way when using Forms, Windows, and .NET Passport authentication.

Typically, you place all the pages that you want to password-protect in a separate folder. If you add a web configuration file to the folder, the settings in the web configuration file apply to all pages in the folder and all subfolders.

For example, if you add the web configuration file in Listing 27.10 to a folder, then unauthenticated ...

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