asp.net-membership

Force drop asp.net membership

I'm trying to remove all the views, tables etc the aspnet_regsql.exe command created. Running the wizard again but for uninstalling tells me there are records in there so I cannot delete it. Removing all the users is a pain as I would need to unravel the whole structure, remove all the keys etc. Is there an easy way to get rid of the w...

Membership system in ASP.net

I'm going to use the membership system in ASP.net, but need to change it in 2 ways. The database which stores the users is Access, and I want to salt the password(etc) plus ask the user to enter details like links to their facebook pages etc which are stored in the database. So how do I use access with the system? And how can I change...

.Net Login at onloggedin, is User.Identity null?

Hello, I have a .Net Login Control with a event handler for onloggedin. onloggedin="Login2_LoggedIn" However User.Identity is always null. protected void Login2_LoggedIn(object sender, EventArgs e) { // Is User is Admin if (Roles.IsUserInRole(User.Identity.Name, "admin")) Is it supposed to be available at this point? Or sh...

ASP.NET MVC User authentication - why it should be so sophisticated?

Hello guys, I'm trying to use ASP.NET MVC to my new project and have been expected that the user authentication should be rather simple there. My goal is to have a separate user database table in my main database. I thought that the SqlTableProfileProvider should be the solution. So I added the corresponding table into my database and ...

aspnet personalization

hi , I need help to configure app with access as default provider for aspnet personalization. ...

Membership Provider ChangePassword Method Return Type Problem

We have implemented a Custom Membership provider and have a change password control on a webpage that uses this provider. The ChangePassword method in this membership provider class checks some business logic about password strength and validity by connecting to an external webservice. The webservice has the ability to return exactly wha...

ASP.Net Membership Services and IIS7 URL Rewriting

My website uses ASP.Net Membership Services for handling site security, I'm also using the URL rewriting module for IIS 7. One of the issues that I'm having with the URL rewriting is when I go to access a restricted page it redirects me to the login page for my application, and the "ReturnUrl" shown is the raw URL and not the rewritten U...

If User.Identity.IsAuthenticated Then... Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Ok so this problem is baffling me. I have a custom class that all my pages inherit from Namespace ICMS Public Class Page : Inherits System.Web.UI.Page ''' <summary> ''' Page Load Event ''' </summary> ''' <remarks>Fires on every Load event, Sets all page level data</remarks> Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Obje...

Logging users in automatically via an URL

I am providing registered members of a website a weekly mailing which contains URLs to private pages on the website. For usability purposes, I don't want the user to have to provide their credentials after they click on the URL. I am using the ASP.NET Membership provider model. Question How can I implement this so that the user ca...

isAuthenticated not recognized on rewritten pages

I'm using the UrlRewriting module on my site and I can't seem to get HttpContext.Current.Request.IsAuthenticated to return "true" on any rewritten pages. If I go to my home page (http://localhost/default.aspx) I get "true", but if I go to something like (http://localhost/contactus) I am always getting "false". why would this be? also,...

how to tell why integrated windows authentication fails in asp.net

In our asp.net intranet application we are using windows authentication to authenticate the users. We have recently had a request to give the user a reason for why they cannot login. For example, tell the user they can't login because their password has expired vs they can't login because their account is locked out. When an account i...

Basic Software Design Question Using Roles & Membership

Hi. I am in the process of looking at an API and I see the following two calls: API.Users.Roles.getAllRoles(); API.Admin.Roles.getAllRoles(); What I would like to know is how each of these call is used within the context of a Web program. Since both Admin and Users are properties, what exactly is the get; set; doing? How does the c...

Multiple Security Questions in ASP.NET Membership

We are using the ASP.NET Membership Provider for managing the users in our application. All was fine until when we had a new requirement. Users should be able to select multiple security questions and give answers to the same. While recovering the password, the user will be presented with one of the security questions and if the user a...

What is the Culture and PublicKeyToken within Membership Provider Type in the web.config file in ASP.Net?

I am reading through the book ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Website Programming and the following is contained within the web.config file in the example project: <authentication mode="Forms"> <forms defaultUrl="/" loginUrl="/user/login" /> </authentication> <membership> <providers> <clear /> ...

Is there a WCF service to sit on top of ASPNET Membership and provide login/create user functionality?

I need a WCF service to sit on top of ASPNET membership and allow me to call all the methods of ASPNET membership such as validateUser, createUser etc. I need this becasue I have out-of-firewall apps that need to access a single central ASPNET membership database. If they were all inside the firewall I'd just point the connectionstring ...

Create Users in ASP.net website administration tool

I am exploring the Membership class of the ASP.net and configuring the roles and users. Is it a must to set security question in ASP.net administration tool? Because I don't think my system needs the security question. If I have quite a number of users, how can I import the list of users? I don't want to create users in the administati...

CreateUserWizard change error message runtime.

First time using the ASP.NET CreateUserWizard control and we are aliasing the Username Textbox as the Email Address because the clients wants the username to be an email address. Then hiding that controls EmailAddress. This part is working fine. The problem I'm having is the error message that gets displayed on the UI says "Please enter ...

Avoid concurrent login (logout former login session) in ASP.net membership

I am learning the ASP.net membership feature. I am wondering how I can implement so that later login session logout former login session to avoid concurrent login. I know how to check whether the user is online (by Membership.IsOnline()) and logout the current user (by FormsAuthentication.SignOut()). But I don't know how to logout the p...

Does <authentication mode="Forms"> in web.config always generate automcomplete="off" in ASP.NET?

Hi, I have a website with in ASP.NET working fine. However, it becomes really annoy after a while that username/password needs to be re-entered every time even in our dev environment. The thing I noticed about our site is that FF/IE would not even prompt us to remember the username/password after login. In the code, there is no autoco...

AspnetSqlMembershipProvider: require minimun length for useranme

I am using dotnetnuke 4.9.5 (ASP.Net 2.0) and its default membership provider i.e. AspnetSqlMembershipProvider. Currently a username of length 1 is legal. Is there anyway I could restrict the minimum length for username? ...