How do I migrate users from a existing users table to Forms Authentication?
There seems to be three options:
T-SQL - Iterate through the existing users table and insert into Forms Authentication tables using the stored procedure aspnet_Membership_CreateUser Code - create a utility that will iterate through the existing users table and insert into Forms Authentication tables using Membership.CreateUser() Code - as users login verify credentials against existing users table and insert into Forms Authentication tables using Membership.CreateUser()
Which is the most practical?
I have been currently trying option 1 but I am running into difficulties using the password salt to create the encrypted password from a plain text password
I need to migrate existing users, I will be creating the users account and setting a dummy password for the first time login... My problem is that by doing this they will not have their security question and answer filled in... I am trying to create a page that will force the user to set up their question and answer at first long ... The problem that I am having is when i try to get the password i get the following error..
I'm creating a new middle tier where all of our client calls will go through a WCF service. We're using ASP.NET membership with the service in order to authenticate users. The middle tier will be hitting an existing database in which we already have an InetUsers table containing usernames and passwords.This is where it starts to get messy. This new middle tier will be used by our web application, but not by our existing desktop application, which will - until we rewrite it at some point in the future - be using the old COM+ middle tier. Administration of the users for the web application takes place in the desktop application. In other words, users will be created and passwords set and changed from within the desktop application, which in turn hits the already existing InetUsers table.Ideally, what will happen is when we deploy the new middle tier, we'll take all of the users from the InetUsers table and create records for them in aspnet_Users and aspnet_Membership. Then we'll set a trigger on the InetUsers table to keep aspnet_Users and aspnet_Membership up-to-date.There's a whole bunch of questions wrapped up in this, so I'll try and list them all out here:Is this the right approach? Obviously having this data in two places isn't ideal, but bear in mind here that I'm not the final decision maker here and we're kinda stuck with some legacy stuff here, at least for now. Still - maybe there's a better way.In the same vein - would we be better off coding our own membership provider rather than using the SqlMembershipProvider? How difficult/easy is it to do so?If we use this approach, I plan on using the aspnet_Membership_XXXX stored procedures for the initial population of the tables as well as in the triggers. Having done some research into this, it appears that if I want to call aspnet_Membership_CreateUser directly from SQL (ie in a trigger...) rather than using the API, I have to store clear text passwords since I can't get the salt and the hash right otherwise. Is this true?Does any of this even make sense or am I going about this the wrong way to begin with?
I'm very new to ASP.NET and MVC2 but I've managed to piece together a project that allows a user to create an entry in the SQL Express database - just like the "MVC Movie Application". However, I now want to utilize the [Log On] Forms Authentication feature. Requirement: when the user successfully registers an account my existing database needs to be updated with a row of data.
Using the MVC Movie Application as an example: the method "public ActionResult Register(RegisterModel model){}" [see: AccountController] needs to be wired to also perform "public ActionResult Create(Movie newMovie)" [see: MoviesController] how is this achieved ? (specifically, to update the MVC Movie application to create a new movie whenever someone registers a new account.)
What is the best way to invite users to an existing event? We'd like to do the following:
create an event, make it public while on our (external) website give the user a dialog (fb:multi-friend-selector) to select their friends to invite to the event
It's established the new Graph API can't be used (http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10070), but the documentation for the REST API (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/rest/events.invite) implies that it's not possible to invite users to existing events.
provide any clarity on this I'd be grateful - reading the vague and contradictory facebook documentation is getting me nowhere.
Specifically, who/where/how should the event be created? - and how can I then invite users to that event from an external website?
I am newbie to asp.net.I want to create roles for the existing users in my database. I dont want to use the membership provider database n roles provided with it.(i don't want to use aspnet.mdf at all)
I am create roles for my existing users n assign i wanted to assign the particular roles to a particular assign.
On our production servers, the admins created a WebUser active directory account which is users for anonymous access to IIS and is also used to authenticate database access with our SQL Server instances using Integrated Security=SSPI in the connection string and identity impersonate="true" in the web.config.
I've often come across situations where I would like to or even need to use forms authentication. However, I using forms authentication, Integrated Security seems to use the logged in user's credentials to authenticate against the database. In these cases I have changed the connection string to use the credentials of a SQL Server users instead. I would prefer to not have a hard coded username and password in the connection string or rather worse in code. Is it possible to use forms authentication just for user authentication for users and windows authentication with the IIS user for database access? What would be the best practice in such a situation?
I have an issue with loginUrl parameter on Forms authentication. Forms Authentication always redirect unauthenticated users to ~/Account/Login ignoring the url configured into Web.Config.
This happend if i add reference to WebMatrix.WebData,WebMatrix.Data into main web.config file (system.web/compilation/assemblies). N.B.: Moving this reference to child web.config file (the one contained into View folder) error doesn't occour anymore
I have an ASP.NET web application that is using forms authentication. Everything is configured and working correctly. However, i'm dealing with the issue of creating and maintaining users and role membership.
I know that I can roll my own solution but I'm wondering if there is an alternative solution?
Does iis7 provide screens for managing forms authentication users? Is there a reliable, free solution that someone would recommend?
I am trying to create an Intranet application and I want my users to be able to log in with their windows account. However my organisation has over 150000 employees but I only want the 10-12 people in my department to be able to log in.
How do I do this? Do I need to store the 10-12 users in a database?
I am creating a Web Application in asp.net 2.0 and sql server 2005.I want to use an existing database.
I have created a login and a signup page. Then i replace the new SQL database (the one that is created automaticly by the visual studio) with the exiting database I have.If I create a new user, the new user goes to the database and I can login with the new user. I cannot login with the existing users.If I go to the asp.net configuration, I only can see the new users I have created, I cannot see the users that were in the database already and I can't see the roles also.
I can I make the new application to recognize the users and roles of the existing database?
we have a web site (Web Site 1) which is presently working and authenticates the users using ASP.Net login control.
We have a new site (Web Site 2) which will have a web page with user name and password fields and these values will be posted to Web Site 1. I am trying to authenticate those user credentials on Web Site1 using
Membership.ValidateUser(UserName, Password); method. but i am keep getting "User AuthenticatedObject reference not set to an instance of an object. " exception.
Im testing something on a MojoPortal where i need to seperately add a Facebook connect button and make the user get registered with the website's registration! How do i do that?
I set up forms authentication in my asp.net application, and everything works apparently without problems. However from time to time some of the users trying to log in inform me that suddenly they cannot enter anymore as their user seems to be deactivated. Even if they try the forgot password entry, they get "user not found" response, but if I check the user is still there, and according to asp.net configuration it is even active.The only solution I found until now to reactivate the user is to remove it and create it again, and then it works. But it cannot work like this of course.
i have one web service how can i give access to that web service to many user(with secure method). Now i am checking url and only doing for one site. So what should i do.
I have the following implementation and I'm sure there is an easy way to do what I want to do but I can't figure it out.
1. I use forms based authentication to authenticate to my site
2. I use active directory to authenticate the users
3. I use the Allow Users="xxx" tag to authorize the users limited to the list that can access my site. (e.g.. even though Mary is an AD user she can't access my site unless I put her credentials in the allow users tag in the web.config file)
All is working well but I want to move the users access list (e.g.. <allow users="john" />" from the web.config to a database table so that I can create a user maintenance page for my admins to add and delete user access. For the life of me I can't figure out how to do this and I can't seem to find an article on it either.
I am using ASP.NET Forms Authentication for my application. I have made my Password Format "Clear", so no problems with the password encryption. I need to create a view(in SQL server) to display all Administrators in my System. ie aspnet_Roles.LoweredRoleName='administrator' The fields needed are UserName and Password
URL....I use this one as my login, and I addes hyperlink for Forgot Password. But why I can't access the FORGOT PASSWORD.aspx for every time I click it. And when I login it redirects t Forgot Password.How I can access it without logging in?
how to implement role based security in asp.net 4.0, in detail. Like from Data base to UI. how I wanted to implement. On page Load, drop will be filled with all available roles, with list of all check boxes(basically it will equal to the no. of links on the left side tree) below, I will select required boxes and then save. If that particular user with that role logged in, then we will load only those links which this role is having ( of course we will assign that user with the spefic role).
am developing website in that website no.of users are there every user contain related data, the data should be in xml files ,how to provide authentication every user by using xml files .how to write xml file names in web.config in sql we can use connectionstring ,in xml how we can write them give examples.
I am using windows authentication in my web application. All we need is when the application will be executed it will launch login.aspx page. If users put correct userid and password(checked from active server directory) it will be redirected to a difference page. But if any unauthenticated user tries to access any other page in the application by typing the Url on the address bar it will be again redirected to the login page. We have to do this by changing our web.config file.I can achieve this using form authentication but not windows. But our requirement is windows. The requirement is very basic but all effort is just not working.
I've created a website with users and passwords and such for authentication.When a user is created through the "administer website" function of asp.net 4.0 where are the passwords stored? Is there a way to manually change passwords in the database?
