Custom Role Provider with ActiveDirectory Authentication.

Question

Hi,

I'm creating a custom Role provider based on the ASP.NET Role provider. I have 3 tables. One for Users, one for Roles, one for UsersInRoles.The Users table has no password column because the users are authenticated with ActiveDirectory. That's my approach so far. I can't get the cusstom Role Provider to work, anyone has the same situation like me. How do you make a custom Role provider works with AD?

Answer 1

You should be able to write the role provider in a manner to where you override the ValidateUser() method and force it to perform the AD lookup there. After that, most of the built in stuff should take over.