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ASP.Net pages randomly require authentication (but show OK anyway)

OG
8/25/2004 3:27:02 PM

dotnet security: When installing our ASP.Net application at a site (Win2K machines), some of
the pages of the application started requiring authentication (poping up the
username/password/domain popup) - something that never happened before.

Interestingly, even if these popups are closed using Cancel/ESC, the pages
then show correctly. Also, so far we have not been able to figure out how
come some pages require the login while others do not.

Any hints on where to look for the problem ?
Thanks
OG.

Re: ASP.Net pages randomly require authentication (but show OK anyway)

Paul Glavich [MVP - ASP.NET]
8/26/2004 11:13:29 PM

Look at your web.config. If none of your pages require authentication, set
your web.config <authentication mode="None">.

Also, make sure windows integrated authentication is not selected/ticked in
the IIS directory security MMC for that site. Again, if no auth is required,
make sure only Anonymous authentication is checked.

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- Paul Glavich
Microsoft MVP - ASP.NET

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