Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

Chapter 8. Security

In this chapter, we will cover some different and interesting development tasks related to Sitecore security. You will learn the following recipes:

• Working with a custom user profile
• Creating custom access rights for an item
• Achieving a single sign-on by creating a virtual user with custom roles and rights
• Preventing Sitecore from applying security
• Implementing extranet login

Introduction

Sitecore has a reputation of being very easy to set up the security of users, roles, access rights, and so on. Sitecore follows the .NET security model, so we will get all basic information of the .NET membership in Sitecore.

This chapter assumes that you have a basic understanding of User Manager, Domain Manager, Role Manager, Security Editor, and ...