MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-320): Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C#™ .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework
by Amit Kalani, Priti Kalani
Configuring Authorization
Configure security for a Windows service, a serviced component, a .NET Remoting object, and an XML Web service: Configure and control authorization. Authorization methods include file-based authorization and URL-based authorization.
After your application has authenticated users, you can proceed to authorize their access to resources. But there's a question to answer first: Just who is the user who you are granting access to? It turns out that there are different answers to that question, depending on whether you implement impersonation. With impersonation, the ASP.NET process can actually take on the identity of the authenticated user.
Impersonation applies only to applications that use ASP.NET to communicate with the ...
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