Chapter 12. Authenticating Users

In This Chapter

• Creating Users and Roles

• Authorizing Users

• Configuring Membership

• Using the Membership and Role Manager API

• Using Windows Authentication

• Testing Authorization

In this chapter, you learn how to add security to your ASP.NET MVC application. You learn how to password protect controllers and controller actions. You also learn how to register new users.

We also investigate how you can configure different types of authentication and Membership to use with an ASP.NET MVC application. For example, you learn how to authenticate users using Windows authentication and Forms authentication.

Finally, you learn how to create tests for controller actions that use authentication. You ...

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