I have a number of remote users that connect to the domain through a VPN device. I need a simple process for them to be able to change their passwords - some of them only have http bookmarks. The VPN is configured to authenticate users with the Active Directory. I found this article: http://...more >>

Hi all I hope somebody can help me In a shared environment, I need to use 2 different application pools with different security levels, here the example: Application pool 1: Environment for customers has to be rescricted in some rights (I have altready a trust level just configured) Appl...more >>

Hi, I have an asp.net 2.0 application that worked on an old server, that broke down. Now I have put the application on another server and it workes almost the same, but some session parameters seem to be forgotten. My first page (default.aspx) has code as: Session["PWD"] = TextBox3.Tex...more >>

I'm using SqlMembershipProvider. Is setting MembershipUser.IsApproved property to true or false an efficient way to suspend a user to log in ? ...more >>

In form authentication mode, when the user forgot password, how to launch the password recover page? Thanks....more >>

Hi, I have a code snippet C# when executed gives the following exception on IE. ___________________________________________________________________ Unable to retrieve the user sid from context. This is typically caused by the context not yet being set. Description: An unhandled exception...more >>

Hello Everyone, I've suddenly started running into the error "error executing child request for Page.aspx" when doing a Server.Transfer("Page.aspx"); That's on a Win2003 Server machine. This same code works fine on another Win2003 Server machine, and a Win2K machine. The prior versio...more >>

Hi all, Problem: A minority of users using an embdedded IE control in a WinForms app cannot log-in to our secure (HTTPS) website which uses and ASP.Net V2 Forms authentication. After entering there username and password then pressing submit, the page refreshes and blanks the form details ...more >>

I have encrypted the identity section of my web.config file, using the RSA provider. The built-in encrypt/decrypt works just fine. The problem is, when I move the app to another machine. My web.config provider entry looks like this. <configProtectedData> <providers> <add name="MyPr...more >>

Hi, I tried using the ASP.Net Web Site Administration Tool to setup security for a web site I'm creating using VS 2005 C#. When clicking on the Security tab, I get the error message: "Unable to connect to SQL Server database". I then created the ASPNETDB database with the ASPNET_REGSQL util...more >>

Hello, I am in the process of rewriting my company's Supplier Extranet, Customer Extranet and Intranet applications. I am looking at leveraging the ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Provider and possibly the Profile Provider. General Requirements: 1) Store/Manage user account information, all cre...more >>

I am trying to open a site through IIS 6.0. I am using Forms Authentication and Active Directory. Here is the information from my web.config. <add name="ADConnectionString" connectionString="LDAP://10.XX.195.X/ou=ABC,dc=esb-test-aaaa,dc=ggg,dc=eee"/> <authentication mode="Forms"> ...more >>

Hello I am developing web application, which is a part of IT project. In my web app Administrators can add end-users of this project. My web app is at the end of development process (it is on beta tests now) and it is my first asp.net project. I am using asp.net 2.0, SqlServer Enterprise a...more >>

Hi, I want to use the default SqlMembershipProvider and SqlRolesProvider for an ASP.NET app. and I want to avoid writing Custom Providers if I can. The problem I have is how to define the roles in the first place! We have some standard User roles: Viewer, Author and Editor. But we have variou...more >>

I have a forms authentication application in asp.net 2.0 which is working fine on my development machine. I authenticate the user with a simple custom routine. I have copied the database to the production server and have given necessary permissions for the logged on user to access the da...more >>

I apologize if this is available but there is so much on getting delegation getting to work we aren't coming up with anything. First off we are using constrained delegation to run a dual server environment for ASP.NET 2.0 application under IIS 6.0 and SQL Server 2005. All Windows Server 2k3...more >>

Why does this happen? How to fix it? Once in a while I get error in ~/ScriptResource.axd?d=... System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Padding is invalid and cannot be r...more >>

In asp.net 2.0 with forms authentication and roles it appears that if a user is authenticated but puts in a url where he is not authorized, forms authentication redirects him to the logon page. Is their a way where if a user is authenticated but not authorized I could redirect him to a user ...more >>

Hi Friends... I have a simple query on building the Web Setup project. When i build my setup, i see that the code behind the .aspx pages (.cs code pages) are also included. And when i deploy the project i can see that even those code files are also deployed on the machine and the code with in...more >>

Hi I am using predefined membership and roles managemant approach characteristic for framework 2.0 Basic idea is that we select some value from DropDownList which represents a role and we get all users for selected role. This works and that is not a problem. Problem is in DropDownList co...more >>

Hello, I have a ASP.Net 1.1 web application installed on a Windows 2003 Server. The application is set up in a virtual directory and it uses Windows Integrated Security. The checkbox "allow anonymous access" is also checked. It has been working fine and is working fine for most users. For ...more >>