April 2002
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
20h 56m
English
When using ASP.NET, remoting, or any technology that relies on authentication, it seems common that somewhere there will be a relational database (SQL Server 2000) that contains user information for purposes of authenticating users to a site. While this practice is somewhat understandable for those who don't want to issue a network account to every user who visits their site, probably because the site and the rest of the network are on the same subnet, it raises some security issues of its own. In fact, “issues” may not quite describe it—burning red flags of despair probably comes closer. Regardless, because ASP.NET has introduced new methods of authentication, discussed in Chapter 14, they rely on ...
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