July 2003
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
16h 35m
English
For varying kinds of risk you need varying kinds of security. For an intranet application it may be suitable to use Windows authentication (see Chapter 13 for more information), but for Internet applications you may want to use a more aggressive approach. For example, you may elect to have users log in using forms authentication and further restrict access based on assigned roles for those users. The first step is to authenticate the user. I will demonstrate forms authentication here. (For a good example of forms authentication and roles-based security, refer to the IBuySpy portal code available for download from Microsoft at http://www.asp.net.)
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