Trust Level required for Membership Providers

Question

Hello all,

I am hosting an ASP.Net site with GoDaddy - It seems that the trust level for the application is Minimal, this seems to create issues with my using the standard SQLMembershipProvider. Can anyone help me to understand if this is a limitation of the SQLMembershipProvider, or the fact that I only have Minimal trust?

To put it another way, is it possible to use the Membership/Role Provider infrastructure in Minimal trust? or do I need to use a different approach for authentication/authorization.

Answer 1

Yes it should be possible to work with the SQLMembershipProvider in minimal trust.

see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.security.sqlmembershipprovider.aspx

[AspNetHostingPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.InheritanceDemand, Level = AspNetHostingPermissionLevel.Minimal)]
[AspNetHostingPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.LinkDemand, Level = AspNetHostingPermissionLevel.Minimal)]
public class SqlMembershipProvider : MembershipProvider

As you don't indicate what issues you're having though so it's not possible to identify what is wrong.