adding users, membership, and roles to site

Question

I have followed scott's gu tutorial here

I uploaded the whole database to my site. Before doing what Scott's says I had one username stored in the membership. How can I create an additional user now that the table is in the web host? I can see that there's aspnet_Membership, aspnet_Applications, etc..etc

Answer 1

If you're using VS2008, there's an ASP.NET configuration option under the project menu. Choose that and it'll open the ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool. In the securities tab, you can update/add users.

If you want to add users via SQL, take a look at the membership stored procedures. They are prefixed with aspnet_Membership.

Answer 2

You have to set up your own admin section of the website.

There is a CreateUserWizard control which will make creating new users really easy.

This tutorial series shows you how to setup an admin area that lets you manage user accounts:

• http://www.asp.net/learn/security/#administrativetasks

This is some tips I have picked up along the way for using CreateUserWizard:

• http://runtingsproper.blogspot.com/search/label/createuserwizard