From MSDN: "The WindowsAuthenticationModule provider relies on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) to provide authenticated users, using any of the mechanisms that IIS supports." For most of us, Windows Authentication means of authenticating against the user with ACLs, usually in a domain, on the web server.
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Revision number 3, Monday, February 04, 2008 8:00:00 AM by mbanavige
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Authentication and Authorization
Authentication means figuring out who you are and Authorization means figuring out what you can do. Both are fundamental parts of the ASP.NET Security Model. An Overview of Authentication and Authorization - This is a good place to start. Samples and Quickstarts
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Membership and Roles
"ASP.NET Membership builds on the success of the Forms authentication model from ASP.NET 1.x. ASP.NET Forms authentication provides a convenient way to incorporate a login form into your ASP.NET application and validate users against a database or other
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ASP.NET WebConfig : Location and Authroization Tags
Here’s is an article saying, how to use the Authorization Tag in Web.Config As per the MSDN Articles, the Location>Authorization Mechanism works on a TOP to DOWN Approach. As if we consider the case, where we need to Define Separate Roles for Folders in
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