I have added a new active directory security group and added myself to it. IsInRole is returning False for this new group. The user and the group are in the same domain. The group and user was added 24 hours ago, so I think it has had time to replicate. I used Reflection to call _GetRoles ...more >>

The authentication cookie with custom user is not available or the user data is gone after a redirect. In other words all the examples on the net on how to do custom FormsAuthentication don't work! Is there a workaround for this? Barry Software Engineer Hogeschool Rotterdam The Netherland...more >>

We want to give access to regional staff across the country to a database that only supports Windows Authentication. The staff should only see data from their own region. So the database needs to know who exactly the user is, so that it filters out the data accordingly. We do not have a nati...more >>

I am using forms based authentication. I would like to be able to determine if a user has access to a specific web page through some automation method without having to put specific code in the page to see if it is restricted. I was looking at the web.config parameters for location element and...more >>

I've read through "Building Secure MS ASP.NET Applications", and "Improving Web Application Security", but I'm a little confused about how to properly set up security. I am building a few controls/components that will be used by another party in their own web app - and I have no involvement in...more >>

I'm new to dotnet security I'm trying to develop a login form agains Window Integration. I don't want to have a pop up window; therefore I create my own login form and redirect users to that page before they can go anywhere else. After user enters username and password, I want to check these u...more >>

Hi all, I look after an intranet site. Our server is Windows 2000 running IIS 5. Access to pages on our intranet has always been done using the Anonymous Account. When I user the Iuser it give me Access denied error In my web.config I set up the access like <system.web> <authoriza...more >>

Hello, I have a web app that is being used to restore sql databases=2E I= am using a new thread to do the sql restores so I can keep the= web page from timing out (it checks a database to see the= status, etc=2E) My problem is that I have tried just about= everything to give that thread t...more >>

Hello. I'm currently developing an intranet c# based application. I need to assign a windows login authentication form for users who needs to authenticate from any computer in the intranet web. How can i re-login through the aspx page by initiating windows integrated authentication form? ...more >>

Hi All I'm badly stick with this issue. My Web App needs to right into the system event log. But when ever this attempted the following error shows up ++++++++++++++++++stack trace+++++++++++++++++ Win32Exception (0x80004005): Access is denied] [InvalidOperationException: Cannot open log fo...more >>

Hello everyone, I have a situation where I am hosting a windows forms based control on a web page in IE. Because the windows forms app uses web services to get and set data on the server I need to make sure that it has a secure context in which to talk to the sever. What I am doing now is us...more >>

I have an ASP.Net application application that uses a client certificate to communicate to a third party. Now, in Win2K, to install the Class 1 Client Certificate, you have to log in as the ASPNET user (or what ever user the aspnet_wp runs as), and install the certificate for that user. In ...more >>

I have an Intranet site that I'm trying to work out some authentication issues on. Eventually, I want all of our domain users to add the url for the site into their 'Local Intranet' zone in IE so I can read their domain username automatically(using User.Identity.Name) when they hit the site w/out p...more >>

Hi guys, I am new to forms Authetication and wish to do the following.. A bit like the Dreamweaver Authentication tool... 1. Authenticate my user by username and pass based on SQL Table data. 2. Save a session or alike with user ID in it. 3. Protect other pages from un authorised viewi...more >>

Hi there, I have a new win 2003 web server and having troubles setting up .NET. Im getting the following error from my applications: Description: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the required permission please conta...more >>

I have set up my web config file to use Forms Authentication. In my login page after I validate my user, I want to store the id but I don't want to call the RedirectFromLoginPage. I want to redirect the page myself. How do I store the id without calling RedirectFromLoginPage? ...more >>

All, I have an ASP.NET application (with FormAuthentication but it shouldn't matter because I may allow unauthenticated user also). I want to read a file on a network drive so user can download the file. What is the best way to achieve this? Thanks John...more >>