We're writing an app that has a requirement for allowing/disallowing access based on user role.In a traditional .net app of course you set the security trimming attribute in the web.config and set the nodes in the web.sitemap file and you were set.
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Where can I find a good tutorial on setting up roles and authorizing them? I'm using Windows Authentication for an intra-net based app and need to figure out how to grant the users access to the various pages.
View 5 RepliesI'm trying to use a custom Principal (with custom Identity) for security. This all works fine for logging in, out etc. I am now trying to limit access to unauthorised users within my code as follows:
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Again, all is fine there. Except I need some more complicated rules, something along the lines of "Allow Admins. Allow Buyers, provided they have the correct department ID and are allowed to see this customer's credentials". All of that information exists within a database.
I have a client asp.net website that uses ASP.Net Membership, Roles and Profile providers and Login controls. I need to expand the application so was going to use WCF Workflows, the ASP.Net website will be hosted on a different server than the WCF Services so what I want to do is get the ASP.Net Website to auth via the WCF Service. So process will go:
ASP.Net Website ------------------> WCF Service ------------------> SQL Database (Membership, Roles, Profile, Workflow Persistence Data and Business Data)
I tried creating a custom Membership and Role providers but I have had problems managing the users (Membershipuser class) saying null when a vaild user has been return by the WCF Service as can access the properies but not the methods.
I am using ASP.NET MVC 3 and am trying to do something that should be really straight forward...
My application uses Forms authentication and that is working perfectly for controllers/actions. For example if I decorate either a controller or an action with the attribute below only members of the administrators group can view them:
[Authorize(Roles="Administrators")]
However I have a folder under the default Scripts folder called Admin. I only want members of the Administrators group to be able to access scripts within this directory so I created a new web.config in the directory with the following inside:
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However no matter whether a user is a member of the Administrators group or not they receive a 302 Found message and are then redirected to the login page.
If I change the web.config to allow user="*" then it works. It also works if I add an allow users="Username" for a specific user I am testing with.
I am "DomainMyDomainUserName" If I do this:
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I can access the website I've created on my local machine in debug mode; and with my domain account as a local administrator, if I do this:
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I can still access the website; and with my domain account in a Domain Group named "DomainDomainLocalSecurityGroup", if I do this:
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I can still access the website; HOWEVER, if I create a Local Group on my machine named "LocalMachineGroup" and I add "DomainMyDomainUserName" to this group and I do this:
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I get an Access Denied error trying to access the website. What I want to do is, have a group on my local machine (for testing), on a test web server, and on a production web server named "MyWebsiteUserAccess" with the same Domain Group (filled with Domain Users allowed access to the site) in all of these local groups; so that when I test the web application on my local machine, on my test web server and on my production web server, I don't have to change the Web.config file to have it work on each AND if the Domain Group name ever has to change, it won't affect access to the website.
What am I overlooking or is this even possible to do this way? I understand that there is a way to do Role Management through ASP.NET but I don't understand that well enough yet to implement that (and will probably go that route once I've done the research on how to best implement it for purpose of access control of this intranet site).
I understand that we can easily secure the menu pages by enabling SecurityTrimming and putting role information in web.sitemap.
But my problem is that we have to use a 3rd party authentication piece. The ASP.NET application gets the UserId and roles from the authentication module.
I need to show/hide ASP.NET pages based on the incoming user's roles.
Is it possible somehow to use web.sitemap with these roles?
Or should I come up with my own way to map a web page to role/s?
Is it possible to specify that multiple roles are required inside the authorization element of the web.config file? I currently have this block in one web.config of my site for a specific directory:
<authorization>
<allow roles="Global, Region" />
<deny users="*" />
</authorization>
I've just identified a special case where a person with two lower-level permissions than Global and Region should also have access to this directory. Roughly, I want something like this:
<authorization>
<allow roles="GlobalManager, RegionManager, SiteManager && FooSite" />
<deny users="*" />
</authorization>
I realize I probably should have a new role for this scenario, but I'd like to avoid that.
I am building a subscription based web site, which currently has three subscription levels, i.e. Horses, Soccer, and Horses and Soccer. I was thinking of implementing standard role based authorization, where a Horses subscriber would get roles including those to use the Horses section, etc.
Should I use a standard role provider, and when a member subscribes to the site, assign roles for his subscription to him, or use a hierarchical role provider, that when asked for the roles for a member, only then uses the member's subscription level to 'calculate' a set of roles for the member.
Is there to implement roles authorization on those ActionLinks?
View 5 RepliesI have a site map with a node and two inner nodes. The inner nodes have the same url but a different querystring parameter. I want the users with role "User" to see only the second of these links in their menu.
This is my siteMap:
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This is the configuration of the web.config:
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As a result, the users with role "User" can see only the second link (Search) which is fine, but they get an Access Denied when they navigate to it which is logic since they don't have access to that page, but it's not really fine for me.
In my web.config I have configured a SiteMapProvider with securityTrimmingEnabled="true" and on my main master page is an asp:Menu control bound to an asp:SiteMapDataSource. In addition I have configured restricted access to all pages in a subfolder "Admin" (using another web.config in this subfolder).
If I put a sitemapNode in Web.sitemap...
<siteMapNode url="~/Admin/Default.aspx" title="Administration" description="" >
... only users in role "Admin" will have the menu item related to that siteMapNode. So this is working fine and as intended.
Now I have defined a URL route in Global.asax to map the physical file to a new URL:
System.Web.Routing.RouteTable.Routes.MapPageRoute("AdminHomeRoute",
"Administration/Home", "~/Admin/Default.aspx");
But when I use this route-URL in the SiteMap file...
<siteMapNode url="Administration/Home" title="Administration" description="" >
... it seems that security trimming does not work: The menu item is visible for all users. (Access to the page is still restricted though, so selecting the menu item by non-Admin users does not navigate to the restricted page.)
Question: Is there any setting I've missed so far to make security trimming working with URL routing in ASP.NET 4.0 Web Forms? Did I do something wrong? Is there any work-around?
I have a multi level application that I am developing and need to block multiple rows from being joined. I know how to hide one role but I cannot figure out how to hide multiple.
Here is my current code
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Our team has recently implemented a role permission based authorization so that we can have granular control. This is similar to what Rockford Lhotka suggests herehttp://www.lhotka.net/weblog/PermissionbasedAuthorizationVsRolebasedAuthorization.aspx I have also read about the Claims based authorization which to me looks very similar to what we have. Can some one put in simple terms what the advantages of claims based authorization are.
View 1 RepliesNewb question: what is the standard practice for assigning roles to newly signed-on members. Is it usually manual or is there a way of automatically assigning roles. Being completely new to this, I am confronted by the issue of my site having three different roles that new members could fall into, but am unsure about how to assign each a role. I can't imagine having to go through the process manually if I have thousands of members.
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In the Roles table there is Role, and RoleType.
I have 3different roles, 2 of which have sub-roles.
Example
Role----------------------Type
Adminstrator
Subscriber---Basic
Subscriber---Business
I need to implement Code Access Security, and URL based security using the roles & types...
For instance, the (Subscriber/Basic) would need to view a different set of pages, and have different access to things then a (Subscriber/Business).
I think I can handle the Code Access security with a custom attribute, but I am unsure to how enforce a User be apart of 2 roles in the URL Authorization.
I am currently using the web.config to deny/allow access to the directories/pages.
e.g.
/Areas/Admin/web.config
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Is it possible to force the user to be apart of 2 roles with this technique?
What is the authentication mode available in ASP.NET? How do you set authentication mode in the ASP.NET application? How do you provide secured communication in ASP.NET? List out the difference between windows authentication and form authentication. ?
View 3 RepliesI'm using Forms authentication in ASP.NET MVC website and I store user account login name in AuthCookie like this: FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(account.Login, false); I want to ask if there is a possibility that user on client side will somehow manage to change his login name in AuthCookie and thus he will be for example impersonated as someone with higher privileges and authorized to do more actions than he is normally supposed to have. Also is it better to save in this cookie user account login name or user account ID number?
View 3 RepliesI'm using Visual studio 2005 with C# on .NET framework 2.0.. I am implementing forms authentication in this project but the problem is when I'm on registration form ( outside login) and try to open any window on that form using java script (window. open) it redirects me to login page. How should i tackle this problem??
View 1 RepliesI have an ASP.NET application that can be installed with either Forms Authentication or Windows Authentication. All of my customers install using Windows Authentication. I use Forms Authentication in-house as it is easier for me to work with different clients. But enough about that.
I have a module as part of my application for Mobile Users. It displays a very simple HTML interface for low bandwith phones and air cards. It seems that some phones when going to this type of site that is Windows Authentication, it throws an error saying that you aren't authorized to view the page. From a computer, it will ask for credentials.
What I would like to do is use Windows Authentication Or Forms for my Main Application, but in the MOBILE folder, it would be nice if I could use FORMS Authentication. Can I mix the two? Can I just add a Web.Config to the folder for the Mobile Files and put FORMS Authentication?
The only other way I thought of doing this is:
1) create a seperate installable application that is always FORMS Authentication that is not part of the main application. Which sucks, as I now have to manage two applications.
2) In the main Web.Config I can set that folder to have no authentication and it will be avail to anyone, and then enforce my own authentication on the few pages it contains.
I'm using a Custom Role Provider for authorization.
There are 2 roles: "VIEWER" and "SYSTEM_ADMINISTRATOR".
I have set up my role for my account as "VIEWER".
Roles.GetRolesForUser(this.User.Identity.Name) returns "VIEWER"
User.IsInRole("SYSTEM_ADMINISTRATOR") returns false
Web.Config contains below:
<location path="Administration">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow roles="SYSTEM_ADMINISTRATOR"/>
<deny users="*"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
However, I can still access the ~/Administration pages.
Even if I change the web.config to:
<location>
<system.web>
<authorization>
<deny users="*"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
I can still access any of the pages, but I shouldn't be able to access any page when this is set. Correct?
I'm pretty sure my Role Manager is working fine (see above calls to User and Roles), but here's the config:
<roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="MyRoleProvider" >
<providers>
<clear/>
<add type="MyNamespace.MyRoleProvider" name="MyRoleProvider"/>
</providers>
</roleManager>
I'm testing this on my local dev environment using Cassini and on a test web server running IIS 6. Both systems/sites work the same way and allow anyone access to any page. Both systems/sites also return correct data when programmatically checking Roles.GetRolesForUser and User.IsInRole.
Trivial question:
Noticed the following error whilst trawling the logs:
Authorization rule names cannot contain the '*' character
I have the code:
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Does that mean I don't need to make and authorisation rules - I had used:
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Now - is that completely redundant? Also, is * wrong syntactically?
I am looking for some suggestions for an application I am writing. Here is a brief description of the application:The application is written in C# ASP.NET version 4.0 and is to be hosted on an IIS6 web server. The purpose of the application is to serve as a download page for sensitive documents. There will be several levels of access which will be granted according to user credentials stored in a SQL table. I don't want the application to check the user's NT ID and either allow or disallow access to the application depending on whether they are authorized or not, I want it to filter on data i.e. everyone can view the application, it will just limit the data they can view depending on their access.
point me in the direction of some source code that can check the NT ID of user's local machines and compare it to a table in SQL?
i need clear expition for authentication and authorization in .net
View 3 Replieswhich is the best method to create own customized login page?
i m not interested to use inbuilt controls, thts why m want to make own sign up pages and login page
